Georgetown Investigations: the Hour Before Bells

A woman walks up the steps of a farmhouse porch in late April with a bundle of three typewritten letters in her hand. She does not need to say why she has come. She is being blackmailed for a thing that happened in 1994 and a thing that happened in 1995. The blackmailer is somebody who has been in her dining room. Three days later, two women are dead in Georgetown. By Sunday at noon, a third life will be on the line in a stand of loblolly pines off Highway 521. By sundown, a man who has not raised his voice in forty-seven years of marriage will have done the bravest and most foolish thing of his life. The Hour Before the Bells is the new Georgetown Investigations novel from Amy Carlile, set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, where the live oaks have been since the Federalist period, the secrets have been there nearly as long, and Margaret Anne Miller has three days to figure out which is which

Pages: 211, Paperback, Independently published