The Charlatan's Son — Tim Holcombe

John Marshall Potts was born with all odds stacked against him. Raised in utter poverty, the oldest child in a family of sharecroppers, Marshall's life takes a dramatic turn when he finds the body of a local merchant's daughter in the woods near his home. The body would haunt him through his time in the Army, his encounter with a voodoo priestess, and ultimately his career as a police detective. Marshall must decide whether his past will remain buried, or if he will reopen the coldest of cases in his hunt for the killer.