The Devil's Dance: A Coble Bray Western Mystery (Coble Bray Book #5)

In a town where order is a costume and respectability a shield, one lawman is all that stands between truth and a lie well-dressed enough to pass for justice.

Marshal Coble Bray has faced killers in wild places—men who wore their violence openly, who lived and died by it. But Lamar, Missouri, is no wild place. It has churches and commerce, Sunday sermons and men of standing. When a shooting in a crowded saloon unravels into murder, gold coins appearing where they have no business being, and a key witness silenced before he can speak, Coble finds himself hunting something far more dangerous than outlaws.

He's hunting pillars of the community. Men who smile at Sunday service and deal in darkness come Monday. Men protected by money, influence, and the patience of predators who have never once had to run.

As threats close in from every direction and the town's most respectable faces close ranks to bury the truth, Coble is forced to reckon with something no badge can settle:

How far must a good man bend before he breaks—and how much of his soul is he willing to spend to find out?