All Ellen Douglas wanted was a quiet autumn walk through Cascade Falls Park with her dog Louisa. What she found there is something she never wanted to see.
Recently retired from a long career as a federal labor investigator, Ellen thought small-town Indiana would be the gentle next chapter she'd been hoping for. Long mornings on the trail. Coffee at the corner diner. Quiet afternoons in the home she shares with the memory of her late husband.
But beneath the rust-colored leaves and the friendly waves of Cascade's tight-knit residents, something is hidden. Something that someone, somewhere, would rather stay buried.
Ellen has spent her whole career listening to her instincts, and her instincts are humming. The closer she looks, the more questions she finds. A name that doesn't quite fit. A story that doesn't quite hold. And the quiet certainty that someone in Cascade is hiding something.
Some secrets won't stay buried. And some retirees aren't quite ready to retire.
Welcome to Cascade. The first Ellen Douglas Mystery is just beginning.
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979-8-950674-00-6 (9798950674006)
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Jill Brown grew up in a small town in central Indiana, the kind of place where the librarian knows your name, the diner knows your order, and the truth has a way of finding daylight even when somebody tries to bury it. After 37 years working for the federal government, Jill traded official correspondence and technical manuals for the kind of writing she's loved since she was a teenager scribbling poetry in school notebooks. She's been a reader of cozy mysteries for as long as she can remember, and her favorite detectives have always been the ones who notice what everyone else misses: Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, and Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody.Now she's writing the kind of mysteries she's always loved to read. Murder in Cascade is the first novel in the Ellen Douglas Mystery series, set in a fictional Indiana town that feels a lot like home.When she isn't writing, Jill can be found in the middle of a board game with friends, throwing stones at her local curling club, or working on a craft project that may or may not get finished.
