T. R Pearson

"In Blue Ridge, Ray Tatum is the new deputy sheriff of Hogarth, Virginia, located in the middle of nowhere with "nothing too awful gaudy afoot" until the discovery of a nearly complete set of human bones on the Appalachian Trail. Ray's cousin Paul is an actuary summoned to New York to identify a fresher and rather less complete body: that of his son, sired in the free and ardent seventies, whom he scarely knew."--BOOK JACKET.

Recounts the last days of Miss Myra Angelique Pettigrew, local spinster, who after years of seclusion returns to public view for a brief time before leaping to her death from the local water tower. Also tells of other memorable local characters.