About This Book
When Eric Regent arrives as the new reporter at the Mint Valley Register, his life soon is forever changed. Out at the Spearfish Lake General Store, Emma Phipps’ 25-year-old mystery is too unbelievable to be true yet too compelling to ignore. Over at the Pegasus Bar, Scrappy Lyons' recollections are hazy and reluctant, but earnest. As Regent follows faded clues, lives soon are lost — and found.
Set 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?"
Set in a world that predates the internet age, "Law of the Land" is a timeless story of love, devotion and honor in the face of power, violence and corruption, and the debut novel by Indiana journalist Dave Stafford, a recipient of the 2022 Carmage Walls Commentary Award presented by America's Newspapers.
