The Heathens
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Sheriff Quinn Colson and his former deputy Lillie Virgil find themselves on opposite sides of a case for the first time after a man is found dead and three delinquent teens go on the run. The Byrd clan is one of the wildest families in Tibbehah County. The three kids are the ire of school resource and truant officers--they peddle pot and steal car parts, doing what they can to survive with a mother who sometimes disappears for months on end. But when their mother returns with a new husband, a registered sex offender, a homicide soon follows, and the kids hit the highway. U. S. Marshal Lillie Virgil is convinced the Byrd kids are guilty of murder, and sets off on a cross-country hunt to track them down and bring them to justice. Back in Tibbehah, Sheriff Quinn Colson isn't so sure. And as he digs deeper into the case, he comes to think there may be a larger conspiracy at work.
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Tanya Jane Byrd, known to her friends as TJ, never gave a damn about being famous. But here she was, four days on the run from Tibbehah County, Mississippi, with that girl Chastity passing along che burner phone to show they now had more than a hundred thou sand followers on Instagram. They only had six posts, the newest one from just two hours ago after TJ cut her hair boy short, dyed it black as a raven's wing, and made her ultimatum to that cowardly son of 2 bitch Chester Pratt. She called him out for not only her mother's murder but the money she and her little brother John Wesley were owed.
On the forty-five-second clip shot outside the Tri-State Motel in Texarkana, she held up her fist on the diving board to an empty pool and said, “Fair is fair,” remembering the line from one of her mothers old VHS tapes in the trailer.
“What do you think?” Chastity asked.
“I think I better drop that phone into the nearest creek.”
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...I'm real sorry, TJ. You're too young to got through a mess like this.”
“My life's been a mess since I was born,” TJ said. “Don't shed a tear for me, Sheriff.”
The little girl wide awake now, as Maggie wiped her face with a napkin and handed her over to Quinn. He held his daughter tight, the child's eyes wide and unfocused. Halley so small, light in his lap, while she checked out all the smells and sounds of the Fillin' Station diner.
“She sure is curious,” Maggie said.
“Skeptical,” Quinn said.
“I guess she comes by it naturally.”
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