A Shattered Lens(2019)

Layton Green

A detective investigates the murder of a teenage golden boy that has rocked a small town--and the chief suspect is the victim's mother.Annalise Stephens Blue has plans to become a world-famous filmmaker. As she begins filming an exposé of her small town called Night Lives, she uncovers more than she bargained on the very first night of filming, she stumbles upon a murder in the woods, and flees the scene steps ahead of the killer.Detective Joe "Preach" Everson is called to investigate. The victim, David Stratton, is the town's golden boy and high school quarterback. A modern version of what Preach used to be. Not only that, the boy's mother is Claire Lourdis, a beautiful divorcée who Preach fell for in high school--as well as the main suspect in her son's murder.    As Preach delves into the secrets lurking beneath the surface of the town and searches for the missing girl who may have witnessed the crime, he must put his own feelings aside and pursue the answer to a terrible is a mother capable of murdering her own child? Praise for the Preach Everson Series"5/5 ... This smart mystery by Layton Green [is] a real page turner." - San Fancisco Book Review"Dostoevsky and Poe would be proud" - Knoxville News Sentinel*Library Journal Starred Review*Poisoned Pen Fresh Fiction SelectionMysteryPeople bookstore Pick of the Month"Written with Profound Elegance" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Starred Review"A page-turner" - Publishers Weekly"Smart, tense, and mystifying ... one of the best new mysteries I've read this year." - Critical Mass Blogspot"A fascinating new protagonist" - Kirkus Reviews"A smart page-turner, as dark and deep as the Carolina woods." - Gordon McAlpine, author of the Edgar-nominated Woman with a Blue Pencil"Fast-paced and braided with twists, it's terrific entertainment." - Andrew Pyper, bestselling author of The Only Child and The Demonologist