Dangerous Undertaking

Description for DANGEROUS UNDERTAKING by Mark de Castrique: This first novel is set among the folk who populate Gainesboro, N.C., and the surrounding hill country. The book opens with a powerful bang: mentally unbalanced Dallas Willard appears at the burial service for his grandmother, Martha Willard, shoots two relatives to death, then turns his shotgun on undertaker(and former Charlotte policeman) Barry Clayton, whom he wings in the shoulder. Dallas's motive? To preserve land worth $3 million that other members of his famiy planned to sell right away. Why shoot the undertaker though? Because Dallas wants Barry to go to heaven and tell Martha nobody is going to take her property! Dallas escapes in his pickup, but when his body turns up at the bottom of a quarry pond after a second shooting incident, Barry realizes that he himself could become the unknown killer's next victim. This is #1 in Buryin' Barry Clayton Series.