CBI agent Buck Taylor is back in book 9 of the CRIME series by Chuck Morgan, 2020 Pacific Book Awards Best Mystery Winner for Crime Denied (Book 5).

When the sheriff of Pine County, Colorado, mysteriously vanishes. Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Buck Taylor and his team are sent to investigate. What they find in this idyllic mountain community located along the Continental Divide Trail will lead them to one of their most bizarre investigations yet. An investigation that revolves around designer drugs, Viking rituals, and multiple brutal murders. Complicating their work is the appearance of a Russian hitman, a ghost who is completely unknown to American law enforcement. It is up to Buck and his team to figure out how these crimes are connected and stop the perpetrators before more people die.