A New York Times Bestselling Author A Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Layton Carlson Jr. of Red Wing, Minnesota, had picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend: an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields. The only problem was something smelled bad -- like, really bad. When he mentioned it to a county deputy, the cop found a body stuffed down a cistern. And then another, and another. By the time Lucas Davenport was called in, they were up to fifteen bodies and counting.