Disturbing the Dead

Tom Bridger, who is half Melungeon, thought he had escaped his mountain community''s lingering prejudice against the mixed-race group when he left to work for the Richmond, Virginia, Police Department. Tom was moving up the detective ranks when a family tragedy brought him back home and moved him into his father''s job as a county sheriff''s deputy.

Now the bones of a Melungeon woman who disappear...