A Dead Man's Eyes

Award-Winning Author 

Lisa Jamison has done well for a single mom who got pregnant at fifteen.

She is a reporter at a well-respected newspaper and her teenage daughter is both an athlete and honors student. Though their relationship is rocky these days, Lisa has accomplished what she set out to do. She has given her daughter the kind of life she never had.

But all that changes when Lisa sees her daughter in the eyes of a dead man.

The cops call it a drug killing, but Lisa doesn't believe it. She knows her ex-boyfriend was no drug dealer even though she had not seen him in sixteen years. Lisa ignores warnings from her medical-examiner friend. She fails to heed barely veiled threats from the sheriff of a neighboring county. Instead, she risks her life and the lives of her daughter and their closest friend on a dangerous quest for answers.

The investigation leaves Lisa fighting for her family in a morbid, black-market world she never knew existed. She learns that trust is complicated and that she, despite her cynical nature, has been blind. She trusted the wrong people and now she might have to pay with her life.

"Only a skilled and experienced reporter could craft such an authentically gripping story. Duffy Foster is the real deal-emotional depth and honest storytelling make this a terrific debut!" -Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today Bestselling Author 

Praise for Lori Duffy Foster

"SPRING MELT is a gripping courtroom drama where every truth feels like a thin layer of ice-beautiful, fragile, and one step from cracking wide open. Lori Duffy Foster builds tension with the quiet inevitability of rising water, until everything breaks loose in the final verdict." -Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

"Lori Duffy Foster weaves a delicate dance between truth, crime, and victims that keeps readers involved and guessing about motivations, outcomes, and long-kept secrets." -D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review