The savage, noble death of Babs Dionne Becky Masterman Severn House FHX|FF Paperback 2024

The savage, noble death of Babs Dionne Becky Masterman Severn House FHX|FF Paperback 2024Sometimes your ancestors breathe through you. Sometimes, they call for vengeance. Babs Dionne, doting grandmother, and vicious crime matriarch, rules her small town with an iron fist. She controls the flow of drugs with the help of her loyal lieutenants, girlfriends since they were teenagers, and her eldest daughter, Lori, a former soldier struggling with addiction. When a drug kingpin discovers that his numbers are down in this one town, he sends a

wearied by the petty squabbles of Rocksalt's townsfolk

or when he's leading others into danger

And Eve isn't acting much like a grieving widow

With Dorthe's murder as her first investigation and the clock ticking to find the missing child

scandal-rag journalism

For all these years

And as he slowly begins to understand the real scope of their work

mysterious invitations arrive to a party that Helen doesn't want

this puzzle-meets-fiction book is split into 10 short stories

Anna's new life in Cambridge is full of promise - she's the top student in her PhD cohort

to the country's darkest heart

but murder