Sons of Shifty, by Chris Offutt: two investigators in the hills of Kentucky. A soldier was injured in the leg.
He is recovering with his sister who is the local sheriff. Linda is in the middle of a re-election campaign. A taxi driver who dreamed of being a racing driver experiences a less glorious fate. He comes across the corpse of a drug dealer in the back of an abandoned supermarket. The victim's mother summons Mick to ask him to investigate the murder. Old Shifty knows that the authorities will not lift the little...