Drago #5 (#2B) Local Bandon Mystery Series by Art Spinella

Guns. Women. Coal. Gold.  Nick and Sal have their hands full.  When gold was discovered in Bandon-area trees, Nick and Sal found themselves in the midst of a thousand year old question of who first settled the Northwest.   It ended badly with bystanders suffering the result of greed and mayhem.   A year later, Sal and Nick begin their hunt for the face behind the Tree Man crimes and get tangled in a new web of deceit.