Accidents happen, as the saying goes But three fatal accidents don't happen within days of each other -- at least, not in Blacklin County, Texas. Sheriff Dan Rhodes has an itch he can't scratch, a hunch that the first two deaths were murder. A third body makes three too many and puts Rhodes onto the cleverly concealed trail of a killer. But it leads hint literally up a tree and on the receiving end of a rifle, and definitely unprepared to meet his own death by accident.