NO SANCTUARY (Rocky Bluff P.D.)

Two Churches. Two Ministers.

Two Wives. One Murder.

While on patrol in the central California foothills near Rocky Bluff, Officer Stacey Wilbur spots a car crashed into a giant oak tree. A woman is slumped against the steering wheel.

The woman is dead, but it’s soon apparent the crash had little to do with her death. There is a bullet hole behind her ear.

The car belongs to the minister of a local church, and it’sh is wife who’s dead on the front seat. Officer Wilbur drives to the minister’s home to give him the bad news, which is met with aloofness bordering on unconcern. The typical “suspect the spouse first” theory ratchets up a few ticks in Stacey Wilbur’s analytical mind.

Before that jells, however, Wilbur learns there’s much more in the mix.