"A Fever Devilin mystery"--Jacket.

In this second in a series, folklorist Fever Devilin is asked to help find two young lovers--Able and Truevine, who happens to be the local witch--who have disappeared after an argument at a church dinner. When the body of the local mortician is discovered near Fever's cabin, the lovers are also wanted for questioning in the murder. The mountain folk will only offer obscure hints to Fever and his friend Dr. Andrews as they try to trace the two before someone else is killed. The reason for the mortician's death becomes horrifyingly clear as Fever uses his knowledge of folklore and the ways of his neighbors to solve the crime and locate the missing lovers while dodging both Truevine's drunken brothers and ghosts from his own past. Vividly evoking Georgia's Appalachia and the people who live there, DePoy seamlessly weaves the folk history of the region into the story.