The Man Who Wasn't Beckham — Robert W. Gregg

The Man Who Wasn't Beckham begins on a cold spring day when two young boys discover the body of a woman at the bottom of a steep bank in a ravine above Crooked Lake. Who is she? Did she fall, or was she pushed? In their search for the truth, the sheriff and her partner, a vacationing college professor, must follow a trail of calculated deception beginning in December with a casual encounter in Chicago and culminating in July on the shores of Crooked Lake.