The Cantaloupe Thief

<p><em>The worst thing about being homeless is being looked right through.</em></p><p></p><p>When reporter Branigan Powers is assigned to write a tenth-anniversary story about her town's only unsolved murder she finds an interesting angle: the area's homeless population. Police always suspected that their failure to apprehend the wealthy widow's killer was because the murderer was a transient who quickly fled the area.</p><p></p><p>Now Branigan has an in with the hidden people of Grambling Georgia. Her friend Liam is the pastor of a church that runs a homeless shelter. With his help Branigan meets Malachi Ezekiel Martin a street-dwelling veteran who is accustomed to being unseen and unheard. When it comes to solving a murder such invisibility may be helpful.</p><p></p><p>But as Branigan and Malachi begin poking into the odd circumstances surrounding the decade-old murder people start dying. Are the new deaths simply a byproduct of the casual violence that comes with life on the street? Or has Branigan's investigation awakened a sleeping killer?  </p>