num_pages: 288
description: Deputy Mattie Cobb and her sister Julia travel to Mexico to visit their mother but when they arrive they discover that she and her husband have vanished without a trace. Back in Timber Creek Mattie finds a chilling note on her front door telling her to look for him among the standing dead up in the high country. The sheriffs department springs into action and sends a team to the mountains where Matties K-9 partner Robo makes a grisly discoverya body tied to a dead pine tree. Mattie is shocked when she realizes she knows the dead man. And then another note arrives warning that Matties mother is in desperate straits. In a last-ditch gambit Mattie must go deep undercover into a killers lair to save her motheror die trying.
language: English
title: Standing Dead
publisher: Crooked Lane Books