A USA TODAY Bestselling Author An Oklahoma Bestseller “An impeccably written tale laced with humor and featuring unorthodox, believable detectives.”--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) On Oklahoma's Big Rock Prairie, a deaf boy finds a body in Pennington Creek. Johnston County Deputy Hannah Bond and Chickasaw Lighthorse Police Sergeant Bill Maytubby find a crime scene where nothing seems to fit -- from the dead angler's oversize waders to the kind of fish in his creel. They scour the creekside brush, then hit the road for Texas in a widening search for the killer. On the Big Rock, a towering bearded man is building a limestone replica of Roman Jerusalem for a Christian passion play. His cronies, who are in league with an interstate fraud ring, want the boy to disappear now. Flying an ancient rented Cessna, Maytubby takes fire from a suspect he is tailing, while Bond combs river trails for traces of the killer. While Maytubby and Bond try to protect the deaf boy and his mother from the crime ring, an improbable ally materializes from the prairie oak thickets, wielding a monstrous shotgun. ''Lackey has penned another fast-paced mystery with the unlikely but highly capable law-enforcement duo of Chickasaw Lighthorseman Bill Maytubby and Deputy Hannah Bond. The author's brilliant descriptions bring details alive, picking up the reader and depositing them squarely in the middle of Oklahoma Indian Country. Go along for an adventurous and dangerous ride. You'll be glad you did. You won't want to put this book down until you've turned the last page, and then you'll want more.'' --Sara Sue Hoklotubbe, author of the award-winning Sadie Walela mystery series ''Lackey has penned another fast-paced mystery with the unlikely but highly capable law-enforcement duo of Chickasaw Lighthorseman Bill Maytubby and Deputy Hannah Bond. The author's brilliant descriptions bring details alive, picking up the reader and depositing them squarely in the middle of Oklahoma Indian Country. Go along for an adventurous and dangerous ride. You'll be glad you did. You won't want to put this book down until you've turned the last page, and then you'll want more.'' --Sara Sue Hoklotubbe, author of the award-winning Sadie Walela mystery series ''This series is a sleeper, well deserving of a larger readership.'' -- Booklist (*Praise for the Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond Mystery series) ''You're going to want more of tribal Lighthorse policeman Bill Maytubby and Deputy Hannah Bond.'' -- Craig Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire series, on Nail's Crossing (*Book 1 of the series) ''A captivating look at a little-known corner of rural Oklahoma burning up in a drought, rife with drug problems, yet peopled by tenacious, idiosyncratic characters you can't help rooting for.'' -- Kirkus Reviews on Nail's Crossing (*Book 1 of the series) ''Kris Lackey brings to vivid life a unique and fascinating part of the country. With two appealing main characters and a sinuously intriguing plot, Nail's Crossing marks a terrific debut.'' -- Lou Berney, Edgar Award-winning author on Nail's Crossing (*Book 1 of the series) ''Lackey’s excellent sequel to 2017's Nail's Crossing charts the investigations of two different but equally able cops ... This one's definitely a keeper.'' -- Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Greasy Bend (*Book 2 of the series) KRIS LACKEY, author of the USA Today bestseller Nails Crossing, has published stories in the Missouri Review, Wisconsin Review, Cimarron Review, and other magazines. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.