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And they’re not talking.Īllie McCormick is a cold case detective from Chicago. They were the only ones there that fateful night, the only ones who know what really happened. But only Clay and his mother and sisters can say for sure. They’re convinced he was murdered by his stepson, Clay Montgomery. The Reverend Lee Barker went missing nineteen years ago…Īnd the people of Stillwater, Mississippi, believe they know why.

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