Cam Richter, needing a break from his too eventful detective career, is in search of more peaceful pastures in the North Carolina countryside. He buys a seven hundred-acre antebellum plantation, the perfect location for restful solitude, but it doesn’t take long for him to discover that his new locale is not as quiet as he’d hoped.
Almost immediately, Cam finds himself caught up in mischievous pranks around his land, the site of a Civil War-era massacre. When the pranks turn hostile, however, he realizes he’s been targeted by a killer who holds him responsible for something Cam is pretty sure he never did. As he tries to find out why someone wants him dead, he begins to uncover the secrets of his plantation and how the land’s tragic history is still tangled up in the present.
Cam will need all of his resources, including his redoubtable German shepherd companions, to stay alive as he deals with a determined stalker, some very eccentric people, and all the entanglements of a place suddenly alive with secrets and the fruits of a bloody past.
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"Suspenseful and fun! Loved the Civil War versions of Miss Haversham and the use of German shepherds (yay fuzzies!). Although, I hope that cops don't really go around shooting things willy-nilly all of the time in the dark merely because something might've moved in the darkness."
— Karissa (4 out of 5 stars)
" Liked the setting in North Carolina since familiar with area. Old plantation and its history and family. Good mystery. "
— MJ, 1/5/2014" Took quite awhile to get into this book, unlike Cat Dancers. Still pretty good. "
— Audrey, 12/19/2013" Deutermann writes wonderfull, edge of your seas thrillers. This seems to be the final book in the Cam Richter series.. "
— Sharon, 11/5/2013" This is the first book I've read by P.T. Deutermann & I will definitely read more! Very fast moving & suspenseful right down to the last pages with a little surprise at the end! :) "
— Christe, 10/24/2013" P. T. Deutermann is one of my favoriate authors. Nightwalkers was another great book with which he writes with purpose and a style uniquely Deutermann. I love Frick, Frack, and Kitty. He incorporates the three German Shepards into his books with such ease. "
— Sue, 10/23/2013" Cam Richter becomes the victim of nasty pranks when he purchases a 700-acre Civil-war era farm in North Carolina. Ghostly figures, booby-traps, and night visitors made me wonder when this fellow ever got any sleep! "
— Connie, 10/18/2013" Lots of twists and mysteries packed into one book. Great characters, not all of which are human. Set reality aside, and just enjoy a reading romp. "
— Rob, 8/21/2013" Nicely done fourth in the series that started with CatDancers. Wonderful eccentric characters including a PTSS man that thinks he's a confederate soldier. "
— Mark, 6/15/2013" P.T. Deutermann has written another page-turner in the Cam Richter series. "
— Donna, 5/7/2013" I love his Cal Richter series, even if they do stretch the imagination sometimes.... This one has Cal and the dogs buying a new home, an old southern plantation on 700 acres. Of course trouble follows. "
— Gail/Ladyvolz, 1/4/2013" Bummed that this is the end of the series (so far?). I have loved the character and the actioo/adventure/mystery that seems to find and surround him. "
— Barb, 12/10/2012" A potboiler type of a mostly predictable mystery, where a detective moves to a plantation in the South and becomes embroiled in a mystery left over from the Civil War. Annoyingly pretty and superhumanly capable characters fall in love.... as usual. "
— Mom, 11/10/2012" Loved the setting and the characters. Modern-day people who still dress in antebellum wear. Who's eccentric? Plenty of murders to go around. Will we catch the culprits before our hero succumbs? Really fun, every novel needs a Vietnam vet who thinks he's a Confederate Major. "
— Kitty, 10/20/2012" Not as good as some of the other Cam Richter adventures, but still a good read. "
— Scott, 12/16/2011" Fourth book in the Cam Richter series. About as good as book 2, "Spider Mountain," and far better than book 3, "The Moon Pool." Read the best one first: "The Cat Dancers." "
— Richard, 9/21/2011" Why no chapters? Boring. Slowly moving. "
— Al, 9/13/2011" Good "who is doing it" story. Listened to this on my way home from AZ in the car. Made the trip go quickly! "
— Veronica, 8/31/2011" Good "who is doing it" story. Listened to this on my way home from AZ in the car. Made the trip go quickly! "
— Veronica, 3/27/2011P. T. Deutermann is the author of many previous novels including Pacific Glory, which won the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction. He spent twenty-six years in military and government service, as a captain in the Navy and in the Joint Chiefs of Staff as an arms-control specialist. He lives with his wife in North Carolina.
Sandra Burr is an AudioFile Earphones Award–wining narrator. She has read more than one hundred books in her career, including the New York Times bestselling Cedar Cove romance series by Debbie Macomber.