Twenty Dry Summers

Bones surface from a dried-up creek bed on Howie Scoggins's Oklahoma property, and the quiet retirement he'd planned with his wife unravels overnight. The remains belong to a farmhand who vanished two decades ago—one of several young workers the town chose to forget. Now sixty-three and armed with half-remembered details from his old mail route, Howie follows a trail of coded journals, missing persons, and a shadowy killer still very much alive. Some secrets the land holds until it can't anymore.