Shroud of Roses — Gloria Ferris

The Class of 2000 held one final party in the old gym before the high school was abandoned and boarded up. At midnight, the school emptied for the last time. Or so everyone believed.


Fifteen years later, the building is finally scheduled for demolition. As a salvage team sweeps the halls for anything of value, they discover a woman's skeleton curled up in a locker with a hole in the left temple. Lockport's Chief of Police, Neil Redfern, is called in to investigate.


When Redfern learns that Bliss Moonbeam Cornwall, his new girlfriend and the town's resident troublemaker, also graduated that fateful year, he reveals other details of the grisly discovery. Cornwall insists she knows who his victim is, but before any headway can be made in the case, another former classmate turns up dead.


Could the two murders be connected? Bliss's unconventional methods and penchant for getting into trouble may jeopardize both the investigation and her relationship before she's finished.