In Bossier City, Louisiana, Police are called to a trailer in a mobile home park where the badly decomposed body of a man has been found, in bed, with a bullet hole in his right temple. The laptop next to the body contains confessions in the form of journals that will reach all the way to the FBI field office in Stockton, California, sending Agents Sam Runyan and Monica Sterling on an interstate investigation of murders committed over a forty eight year period. As they work with local authorities to locate and bring closure to the families of victims, Sam and Monica discover that there is much more to learn than the journals reveal, and much more to the corpse in the bed than meets the eye. -Dark Trail is the page turning sequel to The Christmas Club, and a man named Cole Everman is the link that connects the stories and puts the training and talents of these two top Agents to the test."