The Yamhill Barber

Barney Starr rolls into a bucolic Oregon wine country town as a recently demoted newspaper reporter forbidden to write anything more interesting than a fluff piece on a local celebrity dessert diva. But when his car literally crashes into what looks suspiciously like a crime scene his investigative journalist instincts kick into high gear. Soon hes obsessed with a peculiar barber he meets a man who carries around a straight razor and a Beanie Baby plush toy--and hides a suspicious array of mounds and excavations in his backyard. Before Barney knows it hes embroiled in the colorful lives of many local townspeople embarked on a new romance and investigating a mystery that goes far deeper than the mysterious holes in the barbers backyard.