cover image The Valley of Jewels

The Valley of Jewels

Mary Saums. Silver Dagger Mysteries, $23.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-57072-188-5

A small Southern town reckons with its buried past when a Civil War professor is murdered and a famous retired opera singer receives threatening letters in Mary Saums's (Midnight Hour) The Valley of Jewels. PI Willi Taft returns home to investigate the murder and, after surviving a Civil War reenactment, Klan activities and attempts on her life, she uncovers a secret that's been kept quiet for 135 years.