Books

The Next Great Discovery, Katherine Bennett

The file was labeled "The Next Great Discovery." It wasn't a research project. It was the title of an unwritten novel.

In the quiet Missouri town of Hawkinston, journalist Leni Spencer expects a local archaeological dig to provide little more than a feature story for the local paper. Instead, the...

A threatened cemetery. An ancestor’s will. Dark secrets revealed. Where heritage and power collide, some truths are too dangerous to print.
Reporter Leni Spencer’s investigation into the sudden death of Muriel Banks, a beloved town matriarch, unearths missing records and buried secrets in her Missouri hometown. Muriel’s daughter, Elizabeth...

Silence has a price. Some families pay it in secrets. Others in blood.

After a violent tragedy shakes her small Missouri town, journalist Leni Spencer heads to Southern California, hoping distance will quiet the echoes. Instead, she’s drawn into a situation that feels disturbingly familiar—a friend’s wealthy client, a strained marriage, and a...

A stained-glass window.
A dead winemaker.
A secret buried for seventy years.

When Charles Forrester is found dead at his Missouri winery, there appears to be little mystery about how he died. But questions about the man himself soon emerge. Charles Forrester, it seems, had spent much of his life hiding his past.

A stained-glass window from that past...