Beer, Bait, and Ammo

Lester McFarlin, known throughout the south as the “Redneck Sherlock Holmes” solves so many homicides his boss, Sheriff Adams, dreads an expanded and expensive investigation on every assignment. When a domestic triple killing is a cut-and-dried slam dunk, the sheriff says “go on to something else.” But Lester digs deeper and uncovers a criminal enterprise that has tentacles extending from Hot Springs, Arkansas to New Orleans. Afflicted with a severe case of dyslexia caused by a car wreck when he was five years old, Lester seeks the help of a beautiful speech therapist, Debi Green, and is convinced to go under the knife to remove a blood clot on his brain. From a gun fight on her first date with Lester, to a fight to the death in an airboat blasting through a swamp in Louisiana, the couple puts their lives at risk. Ferocious battles on many fronts combine to attempt to stop a former beauty-queen-turned-crimeboss, dead set on turning Hot Springs into her private dynasty of evil.