From George Roberts, a book and author discovery. American southern author Stuart Woods, and the initial novel of a series: Chiefs.
Stuart Woods' Edgar(r) Award-winning novel spans fifty years of racial tension, politics, and murder in the small Southern town of Delano, Georgia, where a depraved killer claims his innocent victims even as three very different generations of policemen seek to stop him.
For the people of Delano, Georgia, 1920 was a landmark year. That winter they elected their first police chief, built the first jail. . .and discovered the first body -- the naked, brutalized corpse o a young boy. So began a forty-year manhunt that would embroil three generations of small-town police chiefs in the dark, twisted secrets of their sleepy, God-fearing community -- and expose a seamy underbelly of hatred, corruption, and perversion too terrible to imagine. . .and too virulent to ignore.
I couldn't find it locally, but Amazon's got it at this link: https://www.amazon.ca/Chiefs-Stuart-Woods/dp/045121580X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Chiefs+Stewart+woods&qid=1627571317&sr=8-1
