Jude Thorne

He traded briefing rooms for fleece inventories, convinced he'd left twenty years of intelligence work behind. But when his guard llama uncovers a boot in the paddock mud, and a local turns up dead in the town's contested quarry, Julian Fenwick's quiet Vermont retirement comes to a crashing halt. Sheriff Dana Voss has zero homicide experience and a county full of suspects. What she does have is a brooding new neighbor whose cover story doesn't quite add up, and whose lethal set of skills is the only thing standing between her town and buried secrets.
How far can you run from your past when the body at the bottom of the quarry belongs to the world you tried to escape? (Approximately 120 words)