Silent Retribution

Three months in Durham. Ren Murphy keeps finding bodies. The town thinks she's a magnet. She thinks Durham has a problem. They're both right.

When a fellow veteran turns up dead in the VFW parking lot, Ren is the one who finds him. She's not a cop. It's not her case. But there are rules that don't come from a badge and one of them is simple: you don't leave a fallen comrade.

The deeper Ren digs the more the case stops looking like a murder and starts looking like a pattern. Someone has been hiding behind the most devastating statistic in the veteran community. Twenty-two a day. And they've been counting on nobody looking twice.

Sheriff Nadeau is first on scene. Detective Marc Bombard of the Vermont State Police Major Crimes Unit isn't far behind. Neither is Durham's Constable Alex Young. Bombard pulls Ren in again - because whatever she sees, he trusts she sees it first.

Silent Retribution is the third book in The Durham Chronicles - a grounded, gritty mystery series set in the hills of northern Vermont, where the dead deserve answers and the living have to live with them. Ren Murphy has never believed justice was fast. But she's always believed it was worth fighting for. Even when part of her understands exactly why someone decided not to wait for it.