Get the Summary of Sherry Rankin’s The Killing Plains in 20 minutes. Twenty years after Willis Newland was imprisoned for a boy’s murder, another child is found dead under eerily similar circumstances. Recently released, Willis is soon found dead. His sister-in-law Colly Newland, a former FBI profiler, is drawn back into the family’s tangled past when her brother-in-law, Russ, the town’s police chief, asks for her help. Sherry Rankin’s debut thriller The Killing Plains (2025) follows Colly as she confronts her own tragic past and discovers corruption, family betrayals, and a killer hiding in plain sight. With a haunting West Texas backdrop, The Killing Plains explores the weight of guilt and the past’s inescapable grip…
