Reveille In Markleeville Station

<p>The close-knit Sierra Nevada Mountain town of Markleeville Station is peaceful where serious crimes never occur. Fly fishing for trout is sacrosanct to its few residents. The local's creed harbors a severe disdain for out-of-town meat draggers who fish for their <em>super trout</em> with live bait. The East Carson River flows through the town to Nevada. The river's waters can rush and also slow to be mirror-like smooth on top but make no mistake a strong undercurrent flows below especially when the son of a wealthy and influential man vanishes from Markleeville Station.</p><p><br></p><p>Many years later a local boy returns home to Markleeville Station - now a decorated commander of the Navy SEALS. Soon after his return the town elects him sheriff. He assumes that he will spend most of his time fly fishing for his nemesis a famous super trout known as <em>Goliath</em>. However his plans change when a carpetbagging bait fisherman turns up dead.</p><p><br></p><p>The sheriff's investigation uncovers shocking truths about the people of Markleeville Station and much more. His once peaceful life gets further complicated after a thousand-year monsoonal storm devastates the town uncovering a mass gravesite and exposing the skeletal remains of six new bodies all seemingly killed in the same manner as the first bait fisherman - shot by a fixed-blade broadhead hunting arrow.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Reveille In Markleeville Station</em> is a whodunit with layers of personal conflicts between the many colorful personalities living in a remote Sierra Nevada Mountain town. The tension-filled portrayal of small-town life in Markleeville Station tested loyalty and dysfunctional family dynamics simmers under the backdrop of the new sheriff's hunt for a potential serial killer with an appetite for murdering interloping meat draggers.</p>