Tempest

James Lillieforss unlikely detective duo, Pastor Luke Bowers and homicide investigator Amy Hunter, return in a new murder mystery set in Marylands picturesque Tidewater CountyTourists like Susan Champlain pass through the Chesapeake Bay region every year. But when Susan pays Pastor Luke Bowers a visit, hes disturbed by what she shares with him. Her husband has a short temper, she says, and recently threatened to make her disappear because of a photo Susan took on her phone.Luke is concerned enough to tip off Tidewater Countys chief homicide investigator, Amy Hunter. That night, Susans body is found at the foot of the Widows Point bluff. Hunter soon discovers Susan left behind clues that may connect her fate to a series of killings in the Northeast, a powerful criminal enterprise, and to a missing Rembrandt masterpiece, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee.Whoever is behind the killings has created a storm of deception and betrayal, a deliberate tempest designed to obscure the truth. Now Hunter and Bowers must join forces to trace the dangerous secret glimpsed in Susans photo. But will they be the next targets on a killers deadly agenda . . . ?