Claire Watkins had been a police officer in Minnesota, but after the death of her husband, she and her daughter, Meg, moved to Fort St. Antoine, Wisconsin. Claire’s idea was that the small, quiet town about ninety miles away from the Twin Cities would provide an escape from all the horrible memories the area held for her. What she didn’t know was that Meg had not only witnessed the hit-and-run accident that killed her father but also seen the man who was driving the car…and he had seen her, too.

With her background, it made sense that Claire would accept a job with the Fort St. Antoine Sheriff’s Department. She knew what she was doing, and the work didn’t have the kind of pressure big-city police work presented. Meg was healing; Claire was feeling good. And then she stepped out of her house and into her neighbor Landers Anderson’s garden and found him dead. That was only the beginning of the end to the peace Claire Watkins had found in her new home.

With careful characterization, smooth storytelling, and an eye and ear for what makes a mystery work, Mary Logue has created the beginning of a compelling new police procedural series.