Death in Still Waters — Barbara Lee

FOR EVE ELLIOTT, TURNING 40 CAN BE MURDER...
Forty isn't easy, at least when you're in the midst of a divorce and doing some serious rethinking of your career. When Eve Elliott's widowed Aunt Lillian invites her for a visit to the Chesapeake Bay community of Pines on Magothy, Eve thinks it would be a perfect getaway from her stressed-out Manhattan life. But things are not as peaceful in this small town as Lillian has painted them.

Within an hour of her arrival in town, Eve witnesses a shocking scene at the isolated cove owned by cranky old Ray Tilghman -- and by the next day Tilghman himself is dead. Gossip sweeps through the town like a brush fire, linking his accidental drowning with a twenty-five-year-old death in the waters of the same cove. Much as the residents of Pines on Magothy love to speculate, they don't like outsiders with questions. Eve quickly learns that the townspeople will close ranks to defend one of their own...and that one murder to cover an old crime can easily turn into two.