Shot Through the Pines

Spring has finally arrived at Whistling Shores Campground, and Megan Zimmer is ready to enjoy the warmer weather with her Yellow Labrador, Chardonnay, by her side. After a year and a half of retirement in her lakeside Michigan community, the former corporate attorney has traded legal briefs for morning walks and wine on the deck with friends. But when turkey hunting season opens and a local landowner is found dead in the woods, Megan's quiet spring takes a deadly turn.

The sheriff's department wants to call it a tragic hunting accident, but Megan knows better. The victim was an experienced outdoorsman who would never have made the mistakes that supposedly cost him his life. As she digs deeper, Megan uncovers a generations-old family feud over valuable timber land, anonymous threatening letters, and a web of resentment that runs deeper than the roots of the towering pines. Someone used the chaos of hunting weekend as the perfect cover for murder.

With help from her circle of loyal friends and her own sharp legal mind, Megan follows a trail of evidence that leads from forged documents to secret meetings to a killer who has been planning this crime for months. In a community where family loyalty and land disputes have poisoned relationships for decades, Megan must untangle the truth before the real story gets buried along with the victim. The fourth installment in the Whistling Shores Campground Mystery series delivers another satisfying puzzle filled with small-town secrets, colorful characters, and a detective who proves that retirement is anything but boring.