Sheriff Larkin has a drowned stranger; a person missing but not reported; and a Maryvale citizen is in jail in New Orleans accused of murder.
Sheriff Cas Larkin has trouble identifying the drowned girl in the lake, much less the cause of death; a woman is missing but not reported and even her sister won't talk about it; then he gets word from the County Judge that quiet and beautiful red-headed Asst. Librarian, Hannah McLaughlin, who went to Mardi Gras with friends is in jail in New Orleans accused of a brutal nurder.
Book eight in my Belinda Lawrence Classic Mysteries. Mysteries confront amateur sleuths, Belinda Lawrence and Hazel Whitby in the Somerset village of Milford.
Among the eccentrics is the shadowy Madam Malefic.
