Shallow Graves at Shiloh (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798183801163)

The ground always tells you. Sometimes you wish it wouldn't.

Earl "Digger" Boggs knows how to read soil. He can tell a period burial from a fresh one, a relic scatter from a disturbed site. When he and his wife Rayleen join a preservation survey near Shiloh, he expects Confederate camp relics and a rare week off that doesn't involve driving twelve hours to ask a stranger for permission.

He doesn't expect a modern body in a hidden hollow.

The discovery pulls them into a decade-old disappearance, a fresh killing, and a knot of lies tangled around land rights, survey data, and what someone is still desperate to keep buried. The deeper Earl reads the ground, the clearer it becomes - the battlefield isn't the only thing hiding its dead.

To uncover the truth, Earl must trust the evidence in the soil, the instincts of the woman beside him, and one rule every detectorist learns sooner or later: the ground always tells you.

Shallow Graves at Shiloh is Book 5 in the Dirt & Disorder Mysteries - a cozy mystery series set against the Civil War battlefields of the American South, featuring retired mail carrier and lifelong relic hunter Earl Boggs.