What if you came home to bury your estranged father and discovered he'd been murdered?

He just wanted to return home for his estranged father's funeral, hoping to put an end to the legacy of cheating that haunts his own life. But the mysterious and perverse details of his father's death raise questions.

Was it a depraved accident? Or murder?

His father's womanizing ways made an enemy of local law enforcement. Nobody in town cares about the death of a fast talking car dealer. His mother and sister seem glad that Dad's dead.

He vows to find the truth and takes on the role of amateur sleuth to solve the small town mystery. He enlists two high school cohorts... the best friend he left behind, now a local Deputy Sheriff, and his alluring ex-lover, who poses a threat to the sanctity of his marriage.

Scandalous family secrets, an angry Chief of Police, the lure of lustful abandon with his old flame -- all interfere with the search for truth. When he finds himself targeted by the ruthless killer, he must come to grips with his father's legacy of lust, before the murderer ends the investigation permanently.

Murder of the Prodigal Father is the first book in the Connor Pierce private investigator mystery suspense series. If you like amateur sleuths (Agatha Christie), malice domestic (Mary Higgins Clark), honest characters and surprising twists (Robert B. Parker, Lawrence Block), then you'll love Mark Wm Smith's page-turning mystery.

Buy Murder of the Prodigal Father to solve Connor Pierce's most personal mystery.

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