Great Bend resident Carol L. Jenkner has just published her fourth book, the first in a new series. “The Armadillo Way” is a crime/mystery novel set in the Texas Panhandle.

The series features Stonewall Jackson McCullough, also known as “Armadillo Jack,” former rodeo performer, rancher and amateur crime solver who assists his friend, Chief of Police Jones Johnson in solving mysteries of an unusual nature. Jack shares his home with his daughter, Sue Ellen, and her son, “Wally” Stonewall Jackson II.

When the wife of a prominent college professor disappears and an injured woman emerges from a shallow grave a few days later and 250 miles away near Fort Union in New Mexico, the two men wonder if there are any connections between these events.

The search for the missing woman and answers about the identity of the woman in New Mexico lead the two friends into a dark world of deceit, desire for power and Native American witchery.

Along the way, the FBI gets involved. More missing persons come to light going back five years and leading to a secret burial site and the bodies of others, indicating a serial killer has been at work.

What possible connections could there be between a college professor’s wife, the ex-husband of a suspect, and two Native American college students? Who is the woman who rose from a grave and then disappeared?

Even after the case falls under the FBI’s jurisdiction, Chief Johnson and Jack McCullough continue to follow the clues in a trip back through the past months to assemble all of the information and find a killer. And what ever happened to the woman who disappeared?

There will be an author meet and greet and book signing at the Russell Specialty Books and Gifts, 626 N. Main, Russell, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 26. All four books will be available.