In a Midnight Wood by Ellen Hart

In a Midnight Wood by Ellen Hart

Beloved heroine Jane Lawless finds that some secrets don't stay buried forever in Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Ellen Hart's In a Midnight Wood, the 27th mystery in this cultishly popular series.

Minnesota private investigator Jane Lawless is headed on a little getaway. She and her best friend, Cordelia Thorn, plan to visit their old friend Emma in her hometown of Castle Lake, while also participating in the small town's local art festival. Between the festival and an upcoming high school reunion for the class of 1999, no one in Castle Lake is quite sure who will make an appearance.

But back in 1999, Emma's boyfriend and Castle Lake high school senior Sam Romilly went missing. Everyone thought he ran away, though the town rumor mill has always claimed his father murdered him. Today, within a week of his class's 20th reunion, Sam's remains are found in someone else's burial plot. Suddenly the case is warming up fast. People who knew Sam--friends and enemies alike--will be in town for the much anticipated reunion. It's up to Jane to sort the innocent from the guilty, before it's too late.

ELLEN HART is the author of almost twenty Jane Lawless mysteries (including Rest for the Wicked, The Old Deep Dark, and A Whisper of Bones). The Mystery Writers of America (MWA) named her a Grand Master in 2017. Hart is a Lambda and Minnesota Book Award winner, as well as a top novelist in the cultishly popular homosexual mystery genre (Entertainment Weekly). She resides in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.