Scandal in Fair Haven — Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

Henrie O is looking forward to a quiet holiday. Instead, the ex-journalist turned sleuth awakens in a cabin to discover her friend's nephew, his shirt stained with blood, his handsome face stricken by fear and horror...
Craig Matthews swears he didn't kill his wife, swears he didn't lure Patty Kay out to the playhouse of their lavish Fair Haven estate and leave her bloodied and dead. Why, then, did he run away?
It's a question that draws Henrie O into the thick of a life-and-death drama, into the lives of Fair Haven's best families, and into a world where wealth and privilege mask a hotbed of sex, lies, and desperation.
Only when Henrie O begins to question the motives of the bereaved widower, the sullen nymphet of a daughter, the irresistible ex-husband, the venomous sister, even the ingratiating schoolmaster of the exclusive school where Patty Kay was a trustee, does the truth start to emerge.