Dave Stafford Knihy

When Eric Regent leaves Indianapolis and arrives as the new reporter at the Mint Valley Register, he soon enters a world of secrets and whispers. Out at the Spearfish Lake General Store, Emma Phipps' heartbreaking mystery feels too astonishing to be true, too compelling to ignore. Over at the Pegasus Bar, Scrappy Lyons' recollections are hazy and reluctant, but earnest. As Regent follows treacherous, faded clues, lives soon are lost - and found. In 1993 small-town Indiana, "Law of the Land" traces events 25 years prior, in 1968, and 50 years before, during World War II in 1943, in search of the answer to a troubling question: "What happened to Bill Lane?" "Law of the Land" revisits eras before our wired age to discover a timeless tale of love, devotion and honor in the face of power, violence and corruption. Author Dave Stafford is a longtime journalist and a recipient of a 2022 Carmage Walls Commentary Award presented by America's Newspapers. "Law of the Land" is his debut novel.