Laura Belgrave: 4 books

A dead psychic on Halloween night. Heroin filtering into the town's schools. A sullen ex-con with a beef of his own, and a legislator with secrets to protect. Not what homicide detective Claudia Hershey expected when she moved to Indian Run, a smudge on Florida's map. But there's no turning back when the killer makes things personal.

They look like tragic accidents: An old woman drowned in her tub. An old man drowned in a pond. But when Florida Detective Claudia Hershey looks beyond the evidence, someone looks back—someone who will stop at nothing to silence her from seeing what was there all along.

When a hostage situation in a gated community turns deadly, Detective Claudia Hershey is spun into an investigation where the only certainties are deceit and betrayal. Whether she can restore tranquility to the quiet Florida town and salvage her career depends on the community’s newest residents—and who stays alive.

Prequel to "In the Spirit of Murder" (Book #1 in the Claudia Hershey Mystery Series): How does a 12-year-old awkward girl with an unexpected and chilling Halloween night grow into a top-drawer, decorated homicide detective? Find out in the prequel short story—a prelude to the Claudia Hershey Mystery Series.