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When a teenage girl's body is found, Detective Walker Michaels is forced back into his only cold case. After a nearly four-year hiatus, The Moralist is back. Sandy Rawlings is likely the first of a new sting of murders, and Michaels is taking this case personally, drawn into the family of the victim. He is desperate not only to bring the family justice, to catch the killer before he strikes again. This is a character-driven crime story set in Marietta, GA, where its author lived for 16 years.