Means To An End — Michael Hachey

Death and theft strike the rural community of Higgins Point, Wisconsin, and police chief Dexter Loomis has his hands full. The events are seemingly unrelated. The home of a famous local artist is burglarized; a reporter dies in a car crash; and one of the artist's business associates drops dead of a possible heart attack. But as Dexter investigates, he links all incidents to a twenty-year-old unsolved murder.

Clues point to secrets in the artist's past. Two decades ago, his secretary -- and mistress -- was poisoned. No arrests were made. But when the two modern-day deaths are linked to the same poison that killed his secretary, the artist becomes the obvious suspect. Too obvious, Dexter thinks. Digging into a deeper, more convoluted motive, Dexter hunts an experienced killer who has the ability to hide in plain sight.