Badlands. C.J. Box. 2015.

GRIMSTAD, NORTH DAKOTA

A place people used to be from - but were never headed to - has struck oil. As oil flows out, men and money flow in. And with them, comes crime. North Dakota's new oil capital has a serious law and order problem and detective Cassie Dewell has just been appointed its deputy sheriff.

Twelve-year-old Kyle Westergaard is one of Grimstad's paperboys. While delivering newspapers, he witnesses a car accident and now has money and a lot of white powder in his possession. With the temperature dropping to 30° below and a gang war heating up, Cassie fears she might be in over her head. The key to it all will come in the most unlikely form: an undersized boy on a bike who keeps showing up where he doesn't belong.