In Sickness and In Death

When Jolene Parker’s sheriff deputy husband, Ray, brings home a shaggy haired and sulky twelve-year-old boy—their new foster child—Jolene doesn’t know what to think. The impulsive son of a jailed car thief, Danny is a handful whose main talents include picking locks and hotwiring cars.

After Danny takes a brief joyride in a car that he claims belongs to his dad, Jolene and Ray discover a horrible surprise in the trunk: a woman’s severed arm. While Ray hunts down the victim’s identity, Jolene deals with another shock—her sister’s sudden elopement. And the groom may have some sinister plans of his own. As Jolene races to find out whether Danny’s father did the foul deed, it drives her straight into the twisted killer’s sights.