Shiver Hitch

Minotaur Books, June 2017

Jane Bunker thought she’d escaped the pollution, noise, and dead bodies of the big city when she left her job as a Miami homicide detective and moved back to the idyllic town of Green Haven, Maine. But through her work as a marine insurance investigator, it appears she’s left behind the bustle of the city but not the murder.

When Jane is called to the remote Acadia Island to assess the damages from a house fire, she also finds a badly burned body in the charred rubble. It turns out that the victim is the owner of the house, Midge Kohl, who just happens to be one of the most hated women in town. And as the investigation deepens, it becomes clear that someone went to a lot of trouble to orchestrate this murder and make it look like an accident.