Cemetery Road

Marshall McEwan left Bienville, Mississippi, at eighteen and swore he would never come back. He built a career in Washington, D.C., and became one of its most successful journalists. Now his father is dying, his mother is trying to keep the family newspaper afloat, and he has to go home.

Bienville is enjoying an economic revival, but the money may rest on crimes that reach the state capitol and possibly Washington. A shadow group called the Bienville Poker Club, made up of the town's ruling families, holds the real power. Marshall's high school sweetheart, Jet, has married into one of those families, the Mathesons.

Then an archeologist, Buck McKibben, is murdered at a construction site. Soon after, Max Matheson's wife is shot dead in her bed, with Max the only other person in the room. Max insists that his daughter-in-law Jet defend him in court.

Marshall knows how money and politics can wreck an investigation. He secretly teams up with Jet, who has spent fifteen years inside the Matheson family, and starts digging into both killings. They uncover criminal schemes beneath the town's prosperity, and a deeper secret at the heart of the family.

This is a Southern crime novel with a small-town setting, a slow-tightening pressure and a personal cost. As people who have kept quiet for years start to talk, Marshall loses friends, family and Jet, and the truth he reaches is one he would rather not know.