Brown Mountain Breakdown — Annis Ward Jackson

In Brown Mountain Breakdown, the ninth in Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series, Myers and police detective Robby Barnett launch an effort to try and find what caused a long-time friend, a deputy sheriff, to committ suicide, or whether his death was murder. Rachel Myers unearths a disappearance and another questionable death and confronts the dangerous woman who is tied to all three. Parts of this book are based on two actual cases from the 1970's and 1980's.