Dead Woman Crossing

Hannah, a young single mother, is found murdered on the bank of a winding creek in Oklahoma. Her one-year-old daughter is asleep in a stroller close to the body. The small town of Dead Woman Crossing is shaken.

Detective Kimberley King has recently moved from New York to Oklahoma with her young daughter, Jessica. She sees a likeness between Hannah's death and the case of Katie James, the woman the town is named after. Katie was killed in 1905 on the banks of the same creek, in front of her small daughter. Someone may be copying that crime.

Kimberley's interviews go nowhere. Suspects stare back at her and keep quiet, and the town's habit of silence works against her. When she follows a promising lead, her own family turn their backs on her.

She keeps asking questions anyway. Then a threatening note arrives, and she has to face the fact that as a single mother with a young child, she may be placing herself and Jessica in the killer's sights.

This is a small-town crime thriller with a police procedural core and a historical murder echoing behind a present-day case. It opens with a missing baby and tightens as the detective's work turns personal.