It's been a routine summer for Sheriff Jackson Munroe, a middle-age man with doubts about himself and where he's headed in life, a superstitious nature -- and a debt problem hanging over his head. When he comes across an abandoned car on a lonely country road, what he finds in its trunk begins a roller-coaster of mysterious, sometimes violent, sometimes odd events he never could have imagined. Nothing is as it appears. Superb plotting with realistic situations which require no suspensions of belief. Scintillating dialogue, a razor-sharp sense of locale and colorful characters. An excellent two-day read.