Duck Hunter

Gridley CA, 1952, a 17-year-old labor camp girl is murdered. A young deputy sheriff is determined to bring her killer to justice.

In 1939, John Steinbeck began research for The Grapes of Wrath at a migrant labor camp in the Sacramento Valley at Gridley, CA. Fast forward 13 years to the same camp where the Coffey family has lost a 17-year-old daughter from a brutal murder. It seems no one cares about the murdered girl except a young deputy sheriff who is determined to bring her killer to justice. Add a colorful cast of supporting players including the Duck Hunter, a ranch hand who marches to his own drummer; Roxanne, a fifties woman with a nineties attitude; Lewis Cord, an African American war veteran who will not be driven from his home; powerful land owners who consider their values and dictates the real law of the valley, and you have just a few of the characters and events that will keep the reader turning pages.