While on a seven-day cruise with his family, Sheriff Milt Kovak gets caught between two murder investigations when a body turns up on his cruise ship and another one is found back home in Prophesy County.

When Mary Hudson is discovered on her kitchen floor, bludgeoned to death with a meat tenderizer, Sheriff Milt Kovak of Prophesy County, Oklahoma, and his psychiatrist wife Dr. Jean McDonnell are drawn into a murder investigation that is as intriguing as it is chilling. It soon emerges that Mary's husband, Jerry, is a polygamist, and the family belong to a church called the New Saints Tabernacle. As Milt and Jean delve deeper into the church and its...

Sheriff Milt Kovak's plans for a second honeymoon in Las Vegas are ruined when family problems lead to a murder.

Discovering the murdered body of a missing girl at the headquarters of a religious sect, sheriff Milt Kovak races to find the victim's boyfriend, save his niece from becoming the next victim, and identify the killer.

Normally bucolic Longbranch, Oklahoma, has hit a bit of a rough spot as the Chief Deputy gets married, and with a murder, a kidnapping, and a bank robbery, the happy couple's idyllic honeymoon won't be much fun either.

Someone is out for revenge against Milt Kovak, sheriff of Prophecy County, Oklahoma. A sinister note is taped to the office front door, and a dummy found hanging in the interrogation room. If that wasn't disturbing enough, the brake lines on a deputy's car are cut, causing his wife to crash. Meanwhile, two friends of the mother of Milt's other deputy are taken to hospital, poisoned after eating her peach melba. It's not long before Milt and his team...