Burningtree

Set in 1949 Tennessee, Burningtree introduces Rusty Gideon, a professional private investigator working in a field that rarely welcomes women.

When a routine missing-person case begins to mirror a string of violent family murders across multiple states, Rusty identifies a calculated predator moving quietly through rural communities. The killer rides freight trains, blends into small towns, and vanishes before law enforcement can piece together the pattern.

As evidence draws him closer to Coffee County, Rusty and the town of Grayson prepare for his return.

Blending historical detail with sharp psychological tension, Burningtree is a Southern noir procedural centered on intelligence, moral conviction, and the quiet calculation required to stop a methodical killer.