Arresting a Blanton was always going to be bad news, but things are about to get even worse for Sheriff Milt Kovak.
Everyone in Prophesy County knows that you donât mess with the dim-witted, in-bred Blantons. So when Milt gets a call to say that Darrell Blanton has shot dead his wife, heâs expecting a rough ride.
Arresting Darrell and putting him in the slammer may have been surprisingly easy, but things are about to get a whole lot worse. Eunice Blanton, Darrellâs mama, takes a dim view of her sonâs arrest and decides to storm the Longbranch Inn where Miltâs partner, Jean McDonnell is hosting a bachelorette party for Holly Humphries. With the women taken hostage, Euniceâs terms are â unsurprisingly â simple: release her boy or a hostage gets shot every ten minutes. But thereâs a problem: Darrell has been found dead in his cell, with not a mark on him . . .