Main characters are Sgt Guy Poole - a young newly assigned Sgt to the small town of Bexford. Trying to shake off his past. Assigned to work with Det Sam Brock, a man with his own reputation (the cursed detective - all his partners get hurt or die). On his first day they draw a case wherein a body was being buried but due to a lot of rain, someone noticed an elbow sticking out of the mud, so they had a murder to solve. Who did it? I had my suspicions but I didn't piece it all together until close to the end myself. Enjoyed the writing style.