LARGE PRINT VERSION. Henry Kisor's second mystery featuring Deputy Steve Martinez, A VENTURE INTO MURDER, returns to Porcupine County, where gossip never can be stifled for long. But one secret has been kept quiet for years . . . and those who try to uncover it sometimes wind up dead.
Steve had fallen in love with the place after running away from a secret of his own, and had made peace with his past. But the body of a mob hit man is discovered and one of Steve's fellow deputies falls over the long-buried corpse of a man last seen a century before. The two deaths are seemingly unrelated.
As Steve probes deeper, he's confronted with problems that could jeopardize everything: his career and his relationship with a widow who has secrets of her own.
Steve is willing to do whatever it takes to keep the peace, but he may find that even in the quietest of towns some things are better left buried.