MURDER PAINTS MAGGODY. Chief of Police Arly Hanks is the law in Maggody, Arkansas (pop.755), a peaceful little Ozarks town snuggled in the heartland of America. Until a group of camouflage-clad patriots march in with maneuvers--and murder. It begins when pretty widow Kayleen Smeltner lets a group of demented militants use her back pasture for paint-ball war games during the first weekend of hunting season. Suddenly, burglars are breaking into...

When a beautiful, beguiling newcomer to Maggody turns up murdered, police chief Arly Hanks traces her e-mails and begins to suspect that someone in town may have killed her--perhaps one of the many women she made jealous.

Anticipating the filming of a Civil War documentary, Maggody citizens become excited over rumors that Confederate gold may be hidden in a local cave, prompting a flood of outside visitors including an apparently murderous ghost.

When the winner of the local golf tournament is found dead in his awarded bass boat, Sheriff Arly Hanks has a host of jealous suspects.