Retired Denver homicide detective Arn Anderson returned to his sleepy hometown in Wyoming just to restore his boyhood home?but he keeps getting caught up in chasing serial killers. An old friend of Arn's wants him to look into the suspicious deaths of her husband and brother, both dead of apparently natural causes in Veterans Administration hospitals several hundred miles apart. But both victims had almost identical injuries... and it seems they may not be the only ones. Arn doesn't think there's anything natural about the deaths, and once again, he enlists the help of his TV reporter friend, Ana Maria, who turns her attention to researching similar deaths at VA hospitals. Soon, Arn is looking at a pattern he can't ignore, and a growing list of suspects. It doesn't take them long to single out an anti-military cult leader who was seen protesting at the hospitals when the murder victims were found. Then, there's the paroled killer from their past, who showed up in Cheyenne right around the time the killing spree started. Between dodging their old nemesis and closing in on new ones, Arn and Ana Maria fear they might be next on the VA Slayer's hit list.

C. M. Wendelboe entered the law enforcement profession when he was discharged from the Marines as the Vietnam war was winding down. In the 1970s, his career included assisting federal and tribal law enforcement agencies embroiled in conflicts with American Indian Movement activists in South Dakota. He moved to Gillette, Wyoming, and found his niche, where he remained a sheriff's deputy for more than 25 years. In addition, he was a longtime firearms instructor at the local college and within the community. During his 38-year career in law enforcement he had served successful stints as police chief, policy adviser, and other supervisory roles for several agencies. Yet he always has felt most proud of "working the street." He was a patrol supervisor when he retired to pursue his true vocation as a fiction writer.

A Wyoming detective is on the trail of a serial killer who targets military veterans in this mystery thriller by the author of Death on the Greasy Grass.

Retired Denver homicide detective Arn Anderson is back in his Wyoming hometown to restore his boyhood home. But that project gets interrupted when an old friend asks him him to look into the suspicious deaths of her husband and brother. They each seem to have died of natural causes in Veterans Administration hospitals several hundred miles apart. But both victims had almost identical injuries…and they may not be the only ones.

Soon Arn is looking at a pattern he can't ignore, and a growing list of suspects. It doesn't take him long to single out an anti-military cult leader who was seen protesting at the hospitals when the murder victims were found. Then, there's the paroled killer from his past, who showed up in Cheyenne right around the time the killing spree started. Between dodging his old nemesis and closing in on new ones, Arn fears he might be next on the VA Slayer's hit list.