A Quiet Death

A charming widow. A trail of dead husbands. A small-town attorney with everything to lose.In 1948 Hawkins Cove, Tennessee, Cassandra Cheshire is used to setbacks. After losing her law career to nepotism, she retreats to her grandmother's farm, unwilling to face the town-or the man she's loved since childhood.But when an elderly friend is found dead of an apparent suicide, Cass knows something isn't right. His much-younger wife seems unfazed. The sheriff and district attorney refuse to dig deeper. And when another murder occurs on the same property, the pieces fall into place: every man this widow has married has died or disappeared under suspicious circumstances.Cass is determined to expose the truth, but the widow is always one step ahead-eliminating anyone who stands in her way. Now, with her own life on the line and the town unwilling to believe her, Cass must risk everything to stop a killer before she becomes the next name on the widow's list.A slow-burning, high-stakes Southern mystery perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and Michael Malone, A Quiet Death is a gripping novel of deception, deadly ambition, and the cost of uncovering the truth.