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Retired from a bigcity homicide beat to a small Colorado mountain town exdetective Woodrow Mountain Bell yearns only to fade away Hes failed in so many ways as a father a husband friend and cop that it might be too late for a meaningful life When he stumbles across a longforgotten unsolved child murder his first impulse is to let it lie but he cant Hes drawn into the macabre mystery when he realizes the killer might still be near Without help from ambivalent local cops Bell must overcome the obstacles of time age and a lack of police resources by calling upon the unique skills of the endoftheroad codgers he meets for coffee every morninga club of old guys who call themselves Deaf Row Soon this mottled crew finds itself on a collision course with a serial butcher