Mystery

High Desert Grave Robber

4.4

76 reviews296 pages · Independent · 2026 · ISBN 978-1-0000-0005-9

In the high desert, the ground gives up what a town spent decades agreeing not to mention.

Synopsis

A theft from a remote burial site pulls a small desert community into a reckoning with its own history.

Morton writes landscape as evidence, and the investigation moves at the pace of people who have known one another far too long.

Quiet dread, strong sense of place, and a resolution that respects the reader.

“Out here nothing stays buried. The wind sees to that.”

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