Chasing Away the Devil — Susan Rogers Cooper

HEAVEN CAN WAIT

On Friday night, Sheriff Milt Kovak of Prophesy County, Olkahoma, proposed to his longtime lady love, Glenda Sue. She turned him down. On Saturday morning, Glenda Sue is found brutally murdered.

Kovak begins a desperate search to find the killer, well aware he's a suspect himself. When he discovers a first-class, one-way ticket to Paris in Glenda Sue's belongings, it's pretty clear she had been keeping secrets -- deadly secrets.

The arrival of Glenda Sue's daughter and granddaughter brings some light into Milt's life -- and the case. The little girl becomes the target of vicious hate mongers, and puts Milt on the trail of killers whose attack becomes very personal indeed.