The Blood Ballad — Rett MacPherson

Music To Kill By

The roots of her family tree get tangled in murder when New Kassel, Missouri, genealogist Torie O'Shea discovers shocking information about her fiddler grandfather, John Robert Keith. Not only did he have ties to a popular Ozark Depression-era band called the Morgan Family Players, but he apparently wrote many of the songs, for which he received no credit. Before Torie can sort out fact from fiction, she stumbles upon the body of a Morgan descendant, grandson Cliff Weaver, beaten to death and stuffed in an old trunk.

Adding to the grim discovery, Torie receives a CD mailed to her by the victim before he died. On it is a blood ballad that tells the tale of the murder of Belle Morgan, who disappeared years earlier. And when the song leads Torie to Belle's remains, Torie races to solve murders past and present...as family ties become deadly.