The secret dread of runners isn’t blisters or shin splints. It’s finding a dead body. Joggers seem destined to discover the missing, the murdered and abandoned. Until Brynn Reeves stumbled across a severed human head.

In Big D Dead, a feisty heroine who is afflicted with cerebral palsy joins a cloistered monk and a homicide detective on the trail of a hired killer. In the sizzling Texas heat,  the body count climbs.