A dead teenage girl. A growing suspect list. A town full of liars.
At twenty-eight, Detective Nell Brach is both the youngest and the first woman to make detective in her close-knit Tennessee community. Assigned her first case as lead investigator, she’s determined to prove herself and find out what happened to the thirteen-year-old “good girl” found in the woods.
However, the deeper Nell and her new partner, Vaughn, dig, the more potential suspects they discover…including Nell’s lover, a local judge.
With enemies forming right and left, sensitive details being leaked, and a disturbing competition dating back decades come to light, Nell can’t risk only following the rules. One more misstep and she’s off the case. But when she begins to unravel the secrets and series of spiraling events surrounding the girl’s death, it leaves everyone in the small town stunned…
BOOK TWO
A killer on death row. A recent murder chillingly similar. A young woman, the only witness, in hiding.
Still reeling from the arrival of her derelict father—a virtual stranger—and its effect on her family, Detective Nell Brach finds welcome distraction in her work. The vicious murder of a homeless Jane Doe passing through Nell’s rural jurisdiction carries more questions when the subsequent identification shockingly links her to a long-closed murder case that Nell’s deceased grandfather investigated. A case whose convicted killer is scheduled to die soon by lethal injection. The recent murder uncannily parallels the closed case. Does this support her grandfather’s emphatic belief that his suspect was innocent? Or is it part of a more sinister message to decipher?
Following a trail from the recent victim’s traveling companion and her own grandfather’s personal files, Nell and her police partner, Vaughn, delve into their community’s darker corners, exposing a long list of potential suspects, each with their own secrets to protect. With history brutally repeating itself, Nell must bring the same determination to right a possible wrong before it can claim another life. Yet the closer she gets to the truth, the fewer people she can trust. And a killer becomes emboldened…
Genre: Mystery
At twenty-eight, Detective Nell Brach is both the youngest and the first woman to make detective in her close-knit Tennessee community. Assigned her first case as lead investigator, she’s determined to prove herself and find out what happened to the thirteen-year-old “good girl” found in the woods.
However, the deeper Nell and her new partner, Vaughn, dig, the more potential suspects they discover…including Nell’s lover, a local judge.
With enemies forming right and left, sensitive details being leaked, and a disturbing competition dating back decades come to light, Nell can’t risk only following the rules. One more misstep and she’s off the case. But when she begins to unravel the secrets and series of spiraling events surrounding the girl’s death, it leaves everyone in the small town stunned…
BOOK TWO
A killer on death row. A recent murder chillingly similar. A young woman, the only witness, in hiding.
Still reeling from the arrival of her derelict father—a virtual stranger—and its effect on her family, Detective Nell Brach finds welcome distraction in her work. The vicious murder of a homeless Jane Doe passing through Nell’s rural jurisdiction carries more questions when the subsequent identification shockingly links her to a long-closed murder case that Nell’s deceased grandfather investigated. A case whose convicted killer is scheduled to die soon by lethal injection. The recent murder uncannily parallels the closed case. Does this support her grandfather’s emphatic belief that his suspect was innocent? Or is it part of a more sinister message to decipher?
Following a trail from the recent victim’s traveling companion and her own grandfather’s personal files, Nell and her police partner, Vaughn, delve into their community’s darker corners, exposing a long list of potential suspects, each with their own secrets to protect. With history brutally repeating itself, Nell must bring the same determination to right a possible wrong before it can claim another life. Yet the closer she gets to the truth, the fewer people she can trust. And a killer becomes emboldened…
Genre: Mystery
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