The Deputy's Widow

1948 is ending and things couldn't be much worse for Detective Hamilton Baker.  It starts with a phone call from Diana Kramer.  With a voice like a teaspoon of honey drizzled over Lauren Bacall, she begs Baker to find letters she's  written to her lover, Sheriff's Deputy Chester Chet Ferrebee. Chet's getting hitched to another woman this afternoon and Diana wants the letters back where they belong... with her. Hours after the wedding, when Chet turns up dead in a roadside motel room, his new bride beaten and unable to remember the attack, Baker fears his mysterious client may be involved.  As he searches for the letters, he unwillingly digs into the past of the sleepy town of Crane Haven, New York and uncovers the dangerous secrets of a group of men who shattered a young girl's mind and her chance for happiness years ago.