Publisher's Synopsis
Murder shatters the mid-summer calm of tiny Raven, Massachusetts when the battered body of a local sixteen-year-old girl is discovered at a local pond. With a state prison colony located within the town limits, Royce Parker, the town's chief of police, immediately focuses his investigation on a trustee convict who is known to have had recent contact with the girl. When all evidence exonerates the trustee, Chief Parker is forced to look deep within his own tight-knit community for a ruthless killer. As a growing sense of fear and suspicion grips local residents, the chief uncovers a horrible secret lurking just below the quaint veneer of the small New England town that will forever alter its charm and innocence.
