Dead in the Water

Some secrets are buried. Some were never meant to stay there.Helen Voss-Carney spent thirty years as a criminologist reading other people's worst days from a safe distance. Her husband Mike spent twenty-eight as a Boston homicide detective living inside them. Retirement was supposed to mean neither of them had to do that again - just the two of them, a motorhome named Eleanor, and a country's worth of nowhere in particular to be.Six days into their trip, a knock on the door changes that.A woman is floating in the lake behind their campsite - a freelance journalist, it turns out, who'd spent eight months investigating a drowning that happened thirty-seven years ago and was ruled an accident before anyone had reason to ask twice. Now there are two deaths, one campground, and a small Tennessee town that has spent almost four decades agreeing not to look too closely at either.Helen and Mike didn't come here to investigate anything. But some habits don't retire, and some silences don't hold forever.Dead in the Water is the first novel in The Motorhome Murders, a series about a married couple, a motorhome, and the quiet, human cost of the things communities decide to carry rather than tell.