Low Country Mysteries: Badge or Bible

By Amy Carlile and Perry Comer

In Lakeland, South Carolina, everybody knows everybody. Nobody knows Pastor Don.
When a respected member of his congregation is found dead, the town is quick to accept the easy answer and quicker still when a troubled young man is arrested for the killing. But Pastor Don has spent enough years listening to people to know when a story doesn't sit right. And this one doesn't, because the dead man had a secret. He was about to confess to something and somebody made sure he never got the chance.
Working alongside Sheriff Washburn, Don begins pulling at threads that lead from the marshes of the Lowcountry to the banks of Charleston: a decades-old fraud, thirteen families quietly robbed, and a trusted man in town who has been keeping the books and the bodies balanced. The deeper Don digs, the clearer it becomes that the killer isn't finished tying up loose ends.

Don came to Lakeland to leave his old life behind. But some work follows a man. And before this is over, the pastor will have to be both shepherd and hunter.
A Southern cozy mystery of faith, fraud, and small-town secrets, where the sweet tea is cold, the porch lights stay on, and justice rides shotgun down Highway 17.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H45M1MQ1
• ISBN13: 9798180031075
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"