After his wife kicks him out, Miller\'s Kill Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne figures it\'s nobody\'s business--until a neighbor finds the butchered corpse of Mrs.
Russ and Clare must struggle against the reach of the law, the authority of the church, and their own guilty hearts..
To the powers-that-be in the church hierarchy, it\'s a chance to control their wayward cleric once and for all.
To the townspeople, it\'s proof that the whispered gossip about the police chief and the priest was true.
To the state police, it\'s an open-and-shut case of a disaffected husband silencing his wife and putting a stop to the murder investigation he controls.
Until a neighbor pays a friendly visit to Linda Van Alstyne and finds the woman\'s body, gruesomely butchered, on the kitchen floor.
Russ Van Alstyne figures his wife kicking him out of their house is nobody\'s business but his own. and betrayal twists old friendships and evil waits inside quaint farmhouses. . .
Emotions explode in Millers Kill, where nothing is as it seems .
Two people destined for love or tragedy.
One horrible murder.
Martin\'s Press.
But nothing is as it seems.
To many, the murder is proof that the rumors about Russ and Episcopal priest Claire Fergusson are true.
Van Alstyne.
After his wife kicks him out, Miller\'s Kill Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne figures it\'s nobody\'s business--until a neighbor finds the butchered corpse of Mrs
