Bred to the Bone
Deadly Secrets at Hunter's Mill
In this small-town mystery, a retired teacher moves to the Ozark mountains, where her eager manner ruffles some feathers—and unearths dark secrets.
Retired schoolteacher Caroline Hudson has moved to Hickory Bend, Missouri, to embrace small-town life. But her eagerness to join the community only rouses the suspicions of longtime residents. Luckily, her friend Terry needs help fixing up the old Hunter’s Mill. Caroline is thrilled to learn about her new home through this historic building—especially when she discovers some fascinating documents hidden in the attic.
These documents reveal family secrets of prejudice, pride, murder, and mayhem—just the kind of story that piques Caroline’s curiosity! But some residents would prefer to keep the unpleasantness buried in the past. When someone launches a cover-up as shocking and foolhardy as the original crime, it could bring a permanent end to Caroline’s new career in sleuthing . . .
Lin Waterhouse is a freelance journalist and fiction author who seeks out the historical curiosities of the Missouri Ozarks region and explores the unique culture of the beautiful hills and “hollers” of the area. In addition to her books, she writes for local and regional magazines and newspapers.
Waterhouse’s nonfiction thriller The West Plains Dance Hall Explosion details the cold-case mystery of the 1928 explosion that transformed a small-town dance hall into a raging inferno and sparked international media attention. In her fictional mystery, Bred to the Bone, retired educator Caroline Hudson discovers a cache of aged documents in a long-abandoned safe in the attic of Hunter's Mill. The find exposes family secrets of prejudice and pride that lead to murder.
