Judas Burning

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In the </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>concluding story of The Jexville Chronicles trilogy</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Dixon Sinclair moves to Jexville to run the local paper resolve the turmoil over her father's murder.</span><span style=color: rgba(255 0 0 1)>  </span>She moves into the McVay house which is her heritage. Running the local paper is her last-ditch attempt to save herself. <span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Two teenage girls disappear from a sandbar on the Pascagoula River. </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>When the bodies are found hung and burned</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> it's clear that something other than simple murder is at work. Couple that with attacks on the local Catholic Church and Dixon's research brings up the possibility of </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Judas burnings-a ritual to exorcise evil</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>. Dixon trusts no one but she must work with Sheriff J.D. Horton even though she suspects he's protecting an older river man Eustace and his companion a much younger and psychologically damaged woman. When the investigative focus shifts to a young Mexican transient </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>the town is ready to mete out justice</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> unless Dixon and J.D. move to stop it.</span></p>