The fact that this book is fiction, but based on events that actually took place makes it all the more gripping. It just proves how harmful marijuana can be, how it ruins lives, leads to suicides and murder. I was hooked from the very first chapter. It is a great story, a bit gory in parts, but necessary to show the drug trade as it really is. 
 Sarabeth Bingham returns to her old town for the funeral of her father, a newspaper editor, who has been murdered. She vows to carry on his newspaper business, but in doing so sets off an horrendous chain of events. When we meet Bubba Jamison for the first time, he sends shivers down the spine. What a truly awful character. 
 This is the first book of Hammon's that I have read. I shall definitely be reading her others.