{"product_id":"the-body-in-the-truck-tim-kern-9780967411644","title":"The Body in the Truck","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspired by a true incident: a supposedly empty rental truck is being readied for a customer, and when the back door opens, the funky smell turns out to be a body in a plastic trash bag.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetective Fred \"Tree\" Stumpf gets the murder case and begins sleuthing. Something's going on at the U-Drive_Em; mileages are being reassigned, the surveillance cameras develop glitches, and employees are getting conflicting orders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon, Detective Jerry Redding's case starts overlapping, and both detectives in the mid-size Indiana city are working again with each other, sorting out their respective cases and closing in on an interstate smuggling ring, Salvadoran illegals, Cuban green-card holders posing as Mexicans, the truck rental's father-daughter ownership team, and a crook named after a pasta who somehow has made a carpenter, a family man, rich beyond his dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd they close in on all the criminals as they solve all the crimes, and come up with a surprise ending.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you like twists, dogs, teens and toddlers, money, cigarettes, cops and crime, liars and killers, all in a mental maze that adults will get lost in and even middle-schoolers can read, read this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Kern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0967411645\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780967411644\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Kern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.67d","brand":"Tim Kern","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44063522652415,"sku":"9780967411644","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cf588542-50d8-4231-8d30-3d6bb5c0d030.jpg?v=1685390059","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-body-in-the-truck-tim-kern-9780967411644","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}