Out of the Deep I Cry

On April 1, 1930, Jonathan Ketchems wife Jane walked from her house to the police department to ask for help in finding her husband. The men, worn out from a night of chasing bootleggers, did what they could. But no one ever saw Jonathan Ketchem again...Now decades later, someone else is missing in Millers Kill, NY. This time its the physician of the clinic that bears the Ketchem name. Suspicion falls on a volatile single mother with a grudge against the doctor, but Reverend Clare Fergusson isnt convinced. As Clare and Russ investigate, they discover that the doctors disappearance is linked to a bloody trail going all the way back to the hardscrabble Prohibition era. As they draw ever closer to the truth, their attraction for each other grows increasingly more difficult to resist. And their search threatens to uncover secrets that snake from one generation to the next--and to someone whos ready to kill.Julia Spencer-Fleming has created the most intriguing entry yet in her Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award-winning detective series, which brings new airs and graces to the traditional small-town mystery (New York Times Book Review).Out of the Deep I Cry is a 2005 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel.