Day of the Dead — J.A. Jance

Thirty years ago, a local Papago girl was brutally murdered, her butchered body found stuffed into a large cooler left on the side of Highway 86. No one was ever charged for the crime. Few even cared.

And no one suspected it was only the beginning.

Retired Pima County Sheriff Brandon Walker's work with The Last Chance--an exclusive, nationwide fraternity of former lawmen investigating unsolved homicides--has brought new purpose to his life. A gruesome, thirty-year-old cold case leads him into a strange world at the unlikely border between forensic science and tribal mysticism: a place where evil hides behind a perfect facade. A long-forgotten murder in the Arizona desert now threatens to bring home a new horror for Walker and his family, who have already survived the dark hunger of two human monsters. Walker, a relentless ex-cop, is the only person who can still unravel a blood knot of terror and obsession before the innocent die again.