"Rich and satisfying . . . [a] relentless thriller that reads like a literary novel." - Michael Sims,Washington Post

Tom Bouman's Dry Bones in the Valley won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and aLos Angeles TimesBook Prize. TheNew York Timeshailed it as "beautifully written," and the Washington Post called it a "mesmerizing and often terrifying story."

In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, summer has brought Officer Henry Farrell nothing but trouble. Heroin has arrived with a surge in burglaries and other crime. When local carpenter Kevin O'Keeffe admits that he shot a man and that his girlfriend, Penny, is missing, the search leads the small-town cop to an industrial vice district across state lines that has already ensnared more than one of his neighbors. With the patience of a hunter, Farrell ventures into a world of shadow beyond the fields and forests of home.