Does true evil ever die? The discoveries in isolated North Dakota of an amputated hand of a young woman and, dangling in a tree nearby, the battered corpse of a man are the catalyst to begin an investigation that leads to the inescapable conclusion that generations of serial killers have been active in the northern plains for over a century. These killers share a ghoulish methodology, the surgical whittling away of their live victims. Undersheriff Joyce Smith, a Hunkpapa Sioux Indian, heads a team of investigators, including police, a medical examiner, a private detective, an historic crime...