Deception Peak
(2026)(The ninth book in the Sheriff Ray Duke Small Town Mystery series)
A novel by Kelly Cross
A frozen skull. A framed sheriff. One mountain that won't give up its dead.
When an EPA investigator is found frozen to death in the Colorado high country, cuffed with steel belonging to Sheriff Ray Duke, the county already knows who to blame. Duke warned the dead man off the mountain. The town heard him do it. And the evidence points straight at the sheriff's star.
To prove he didn't lock those cuffs around a dead man, Duke needs an alibi. But the truth about where he was—and what he was hunting for on that mountain—will cost him his badge.
With a grieving town turning against him and his own deputies pushed to the breaking point, Duke is running out of time and out of allies. The evidence that could save him is buried on the same unforgiving peak where his sister disappeared twenty years ago. And under the guise of a public health emergency, a corrupt billionaire is sending heavy machinery up the pass to seal the mountain under solid concrete forever.
Duke has three days. One chance to expose a killer. One chance to end it for good.
But taking it means breaking the same law he swore to uphold—and facing the mountain he was warned to stay off of.
Some men are framed by their enemies. Ray Duke was framed by everything he believes in.
Genre: Inspirational
When an EPA investigator is found frozen to death in the Colorado high country, cuffed with steel belonging to Sheriff Ray Duke, the county already knows who to blame. Duke warned the dead man off the mountain. The town heard him do it. And the evidence points straight at the sheriff's star.
To prove he didn't lock those cuffs around a dead man, Duke needs an alibi. But the truth about where he was—and what he was hunting for on that mountain—will cost him his badge.
With a grieving town turning against him and his own deputies pushed to the breaking point, Duke is running out of time and out of allies. The evidence that could save him is buried on the same unforgiving peak where his sister disappeared twenty years ago. And under the guise of a public health emergency, a corrupt billionaire is sending heavy machinery up the pass to seal the mountain under solid concrete forever.
Duke has three days. One chance to expose a killer. One chance to end it for good.
But taking it means breaking the same law he swore to uphold—and facing the mountain he was warned to stay off of.
Some men are framed by their enemies. Ray Duke was framed by everything he believes in.
Genre: Inspirational
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