Eleven Teeth and a Tobacco Tin

About this book

Odessa Trammel was nine when the Knoxville Register put her on the cover — GIRL DETECTIVE CRACKS QUARRY CASE — and twelve when the real killer confessed and the paper took it all back. Now she's thirteen, living in her grandmother's double-wide at the dead end of Cattail Road, and nobody in Hopper County, Kentucky calls her anything but the girl who got it wrong. Her father is gone. The man she named is home from prison, three miles up the ridge, watching the road through his screen door. In October, digging a drainage trench in the rain, Dess strikes a tobacco tin. Inside are eleven teeth: human, child-sized, decades old. Twenty-five years ago a children's home burned on Cattail Ridge. Seven kids died. Only six bodies came out. Dess has been wrong before. She cannot afford to be wrong again.