The Mortician's Daughter — Elizabeth Bloom

Ginny Lavoie has just been suspended from her job with the NYPD when she gets a late-night phone call from her childhood best friend whose teenage son, Danny, was savagely beaten to death. Now, Ginny is back in the scruffy New England mill town she left more than a decade before to solve the murder of this handsome, popular boy. But as she tries to untangle the secrets and lies simmering beneath the towns surface, Ginny must confront childhood ghosts and new demons. Having sworn to find Dannys killer, she sifts through suspects ranging from the towns resident homeless Vietnam vet to Manhattan hipsters to Dannys own stepfather. But when the towns first murder in recent memory gives way to a second, then a third, Ginny must race to find the killers identitybefore she becomes victim number four.