Book Five in the Sean Colbeth Investigates series
Twenty years and a lifetime ago, Windeport Police Chief Sean Colbeth had his teenage heart badly broken when the girl he thought he loved dumped him for another guy in the most dramatic manner possible. Young love burns hot and fast, to be sure, but it wasn’t until Suzanne Kellerman stepped into his life that Sean figured out just how deep the wounds to his soul had been, and how carefully he’d been hiding them from the world.
And from himself.
On a sultry July 4th holiday weekend two decades later, a chance discovery in one of the last standing icehouses in the county threatens to reopen those very wounds in the cruelest possible way. Tantalizing clues emerge that connect whatever happened in that lonely spot along the St. Mark’s River to the disappearance of the very guy responsible for Sean’s torment all those years earlier, a long forgotten cold case that continues to haunt his predecessor long after retirement.
Forced to revisit his childhood in a village where people have known each other for generations, Sean tries to separate fond memories from harsh realities as he pursues a killer that never expected to be hunted.
Available July 4, 2023