Hot on the heels of her multi-award-winning debut, In the Bleak Midwinter, Julia Spencer-Fleming delivers the latest captivating mystery in her acclaimed series. When the local doctor disappears from the small town of Millers Kill, New York, it doesn't take long for the gossip-mongers to start insinuating foul play. Amid escalating suspicions that he was "disposed of" due to his ongoing fight to prevent authorities from cutting his clinic's funding, Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson and police chief Russ van Alstyne are enlisted to investigate. Neither could have bargained for what they discover, however, as they pursue an investigation that takes them deep into the past—to the Jazz Age, Prohibition, and the Great Depression—and to a series of sordid and horrifying secrets one family will risk everything to keep hidden.
Julia
Spencer-Fleming
is an Agatha, Anthony, Barry, Dilys, Gumshoe, and Macavity award winner. She
studied acting and history at Ithaca College and received her JD at the
University of Maine School of Law. Her books have been short-listed for the
Edgar and Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice awards. She lives in a 190-year-old farmhouse in
Buxton, Maine, with her husband and three children.View all by Julia Spencer-Fleming
