Publisher's Synopsis
Early one morning in November of 1972 a young boy knocks on his neighbors door and explains that he cant find his mother. The neighbor goes to the boys house and does find the mother, lying bludgeoned to death on the family room floor. Five hours later police find the boys father hunting, two hours from their home. He becomes the primary suspect in his wifes murder. In the subsequent months and years the father and his sons live under the shadow of that murder trying to protect the victims reputation and to avenge her death. Charlie is Steve Powells first novel
