Fatal Undertaking

Funeral director and part-time sheriff Barry Clayton lends Jaycee member Archie Donovan a casket to be the centerpiece of a haunted house, the Jaycees’ charity event. But when the organization’s president is murdered in the casket on Halloween, the national press descends upon Gainesboro. The sheriff assigns the case to Barry. Then someone shoots at Archie Donovan, and Barry wonders if the murder victim was even the intended target. Barry must follow a trail of winding clues. The unexpected destination: a mountainside of Christmas trees. Somewhere behind them lurks a killer whose unmasking will be a fatal undertaking.