Reveille In Markleeville Station

The close-knit Sierra Nevada Mountain town of Markleeville Station is peaceful, where serious crimes never occur. Fly fishing for trout is sacrosanct to its few residents. The local's creed harbors a severe disdain for out-of-town "e;meat draggers"e; who fish for their super trout with live bait. The East Carson River flows through the town to Nevada. The river's waters can rush and also slow to be mirror-like smooth on top, but make no mistake, a strong undercurrent flows below, especially when the son of a wealthy and influential man vanishes from Markleeville Station.Many years later, a local boy returns home to Markleeville Station - now a decorated commander of the Navy SEALS. Soon after his return, the town elects him sheriff. He assumes that he will spend most of his time fly fishing for his nemesis, a famous super trout known as Goliath. However, his plans change when a carpetbagging bait fisherman turns up dead.The sheriff's investigation uncovers shocking truths about the people of Markleeville Station and much more. His once peaceful life gets further complicated after a thousand-year monsoonal storm devastates the town, uncovering a mass gravesite and exposing the skeletal remains of six new bodies, all seemingly killed in the same manner as the first bait fisherman - shot by a fixed-blade broadhead hunting arrow.Reveille In Markleeville Station is a whodunit with layers of personal conflicts between the many colorful personalities living in a remote Sierra Nevada Mountain town. The tension-filled portrayal of small-town life in Markleeville Station, tested loyalty, and dysfunctional family dynamics simmers under the backdrop of the new sheriff's hunt for a potential serial killer with an appetite for murdering interloping meat draggers.