{"product_id":"the-cantaloupe-thief-paperback","title":"The Cantaloupe Thief - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe worst thing about being homeless is being looked right through.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen reporter Branigan Powers is assigned to write a tenth-anniversary story about her town's only unsolved murder, she finds an interesting angle: the area's homeless population. Police always suspected that their failure to apprehend the wealthy widow's killer was because the murderer was a transient who quickly fled the area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Branigan has an in with the hidden people of Grambling, Georgia. Her friend, Liam, is the pastor of a church that runs a homeless shelter. With his help, Branigan meets Malachi Ezekiel Martin, a street-dwelling veteran who is accustomed to being unseen and unheard. When it comes to solving a murder, such invisibility may be helpful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as Branigan and Malachi begin poking into the odd circumstances surrounding the decade-old murder, people start dying. Are the new deaths simply a byproduct of the casual violence that comes with life on the street? Or has Branigan's investigation awakened a sleeping killer? \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67651220177119,"sku":"9781958231777","price":19.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/mP84BneHLW9781958231777.webp?v=1790527917","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-cantaloupe-thief-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}