One Must Wait — Penny Mickelbury

ONE WASHINGTON ATTORNEY IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER THE DANGEROUS LIES AND DEADLY TRUTHS ABOUT HER HUSBAND'S MURDER

Savvy, shrewd, and smart enough to recognize the thin line between law and justice, Carole Ann Gibson is a heavyweight in Washington, D.C. legal circles. And, as mystery fiction's first African-American female criminal defense attorney, she's both forceful and unstoppable when she sets out to solve the most shocking of crimes: the murder of her own husband.

At first, she's too grief-stricken to recognize the terrible truth: that Al was not a random victim of violence, but the target of cold-blooded assassination. She knew his current case as a corporate attorney had been affecting him in unsettling ways, prompting his resignation. As Carole Ann begins to sift through the devastating information in her husband's files, she follows a shadow of emerging horror to the bayou of Louisiana, where dark places harbor secrets too harsh to see the light of day. Someone, too, has followed her, desperate to see her dead before she exposes truths as dangerous as evil itself.