Julia Keller's gritty crime series featuring the West Virginia prosecutor Bell Elkins continues in "Last Ragged Breath" as a man who wants to develop a luxury resort in Bell's hardscrabble county is found murdered. The leading suspect is a reclusive hermit who just wants to be left alone with his pack of rescued dogs. Bell is leading the prosecution but something about this case just doesn't smell right. Bell finally gets to the bottom of things. Some secrets are harder and blacker than the coal that once powered the economy of that region