Rope Burn

A former big-city detective battles rustling and murder in modern-day cattle country in this award-winning whodunit

Leaving behind a troubled past, former Baltimore detective Nick DeNunzio hires on as a Wyoming stock detective to stop a brutal string of cattle thefts. Chasing rustlers ought to be a lark even for a city-slicker cop. But when people start turning up dead, Nick realizes it’s not just cows being led to slaughter.
 

To catch the rustlers and stop the murders before he is the next victim, Nick must solve a seven-year-old crime, confront his own dark past . . .

 . . . and become a cattle rustler himself.