Shades of Truth — Denise Grover Swank

The penultimate book in the Carly Moore SeriesFor six months, Carly Moore has been trying to bring down the town patriarch, Bart Drummond. Everyone knows he's behind a favor system that has often ended in murder, but no one has ever been able to prove it. Until now.Carly has a lead that might crack the case wide open but her investigation comes to a screeching halt when someone close to her is killed. Now her only goal is to bring the killer to justice. But the more she digs, the more she can't help but wonder if the murder is the handiwork of Bart Drummond after all...