Failure analyst Owen Allison returns to his native West Virginia, where his mother faces cancer and construction dumping threatens a family hollow.
Owen's Aunt Lizzie, shotgun in hand, vows to stop the dump trucks.
A trucker is killed and Aunt Lizzie swears she pulled the trigger.
But Owen thinks she's hiding something.
He sets out to find the truth, putting himself in the crosshairs of a deadly conspiracy, as his mother undergoes her own ordeal.
This Mystery Company edition restores to print the third novel in the Owen Allison series.
Mystery Company Dismal mountain, paperback/john billheimer
