High Water
Suspecting her father may have been involved in her mother's death, Georgie Smallwood is stunned when he too is murdered and her sister, Claire, in dire financial straits after the breakup of her marriage, is implicated in the crime.
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A mother's death. A daughter's intuition. A father's terrifying secret. High Water Beaufort, South Carolina: When the matriarch of the Smallwood family dies of mysterious causes, everybody in town has their eyes on the widower. An ex-marine involved in a local scandal years before, Fielding Smallwood is known as a fierce man with a powerful sense of discipline. He was neglectful of his wife and three children, including Georgie, the youngest, who is convinced her father is the killer...until another tragedy occurs and her sister Claire becomes a prime suspect. Now it's up to Georgie to find the evidence needed to clear her sister's name -- even if what she discovers threatens the survival of the only family she has left. Lynn Hightower entwines deadly deceptions and startling revelations in this rich, intricate work of suspense.
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