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Kingdom Come
Paperback
Series: A Will Prescott Novel, Book 5
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 29 2026
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE CABIN OFFERS AN EASY ANSWER. THE EVIDENCE REFUSES TO ACCEPT IT.
Two men are found dead at a table in a remote hunting camp north of Island Pond, Vermont. Cash, drugs, injection marks, and a burning lantern make the scene look like a deal that ended in overdose and violence. U.S. Marshal Will Prescott sees the arrangement for what it is: a story built for the first person through the door.
One victim was shot at close range. The compound that killed the other came from a different supply than the drugs staged beside him. With his task-force partner, Benjamin Walker, Will begins tracing the two deaths through the Northeast Kingdom's illegal drug network. The trail soon reaches the overdose death of Brody Potter, the teenage son of one of Vermont's most influential families.
The Potters want closure. Supervisors want a defensible federal case. The evidence keeps pointing somewhere older and less convenient. A neglected 2007 homicide and a land dispute stretching back generations raise a competing possibility: the deer-camp killings may be the latest act in a private history protected by money, service, and silence.
As an early winter storm closes over the Kingdom, Will and Walker work through bad roads, competing jurisdictions, guarded witnesses, and political pressure strong enough to decide the case before a court ever sees it. The man who pulled the trigger is waiting at the end of the evidence. So is a harder question: what happens when the lawful version of closure is not the truth?
Kingdom Come is a restrained, slow-burn rural mystery about family loyalty, inherited power, and the difference between solving a murder and controlling its official story.
If you like William Kent Krueger's layered investigations, Craig Johnson's patient lawmen, and C. J. Box's winterbound rural suspense, you'll enjoy Kingdom Come.
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