WHILE JUSTICE SLEEPS

<p>At sixty-six Jake Walker thinks he’s ready for some peace and quiet. He’s a Vietnam veteran former POW recent widower and retired SWAT team commander with the Houston Police Department so he looks for a new life of leisure in the small town of Rockriver Texas. But adventure finds him even when he’s not looking for it. Before he knows it a forty-year-old cold case murder catches his attention and he is on the trail of crime and corruption—and something more. Camy Jo Parker is a divorcée who seems to be interested in more than Jake’s abilities as a detective. Will Jake find a new career and lease on life in what seemed to be a sleepy small town?</p><p><em>While Justice Sleeps: Secrets in a Small Town</em> is Jerry Snodgrass’s twelfth novel. <em>While Justice Sleeps</em> not only fictionalizes Snodgrass’s experiences with the military but also preserves stories of the small-town life as one by one small-town police departments are shut down.<br /> </p>