Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited

Sheriff Maynard’s job has always been more babysitter than detective, and he prefers it that way. Then the most important man in the county turns up dead, and the Viet Nam vet-turned-sheriff realizes

Sheriff Maynard’s job has always been more babysitter than detective, and he prefers it that way. Then the most important man in the county turns up dead, and the Viet Nam vet-turned-sheriff realizes he and a grumpy recluse are all that is keeping the good-ole-boy buddies of the deceased from railroading a fragile stranger right into prison.