The last anyone heard from Susan was a phone call to her sister-in-law, made as the nature reporter was out among the pines reporting for her employer, Core News. A man and woman surprised her in the woods and strangled her, thinking that she followed them to their private love nest.

The novel is set in Nigeria, where politics is volatile and journalists are often at the receiving end. There are plenty of questions that need answers in If the Pines Could Talk.

When the murdered journalists body is found in the secluded spot, tire tracks of a Peugeot 406 are seen leading away from the crime...