Silence of the Loons: Murder in Maury County, Tennessee

By Meg Anne Brighton

A MASTERPIECE REMINISCENT OF DICKENS "GREAT EXPECTATIONS.

In the heart of Maury County, Tennessee, during the tumultuous 1920s, rugged hills echo with the eerie cries of cougars at night, and shadowy figures clandestinely brew potent "white lightning." Life is about surviving any way you can.

Rumor was that Priscilla Powell, the girl who lived near the marshes near Duck River, was dead. The sheriff had found her ragged dress hung over a rock at the rapids in the river. The locals said if she hadn't drowned, the cougars or the bears had surely got to her by now. Others said that she was hiding in the marshes, a place she'd always gone to escape. And this time, she had a reason. She didn't want to marry her cousin, Lee Dodd Thomason. A notorious gunslinger from a family of bootleggers. The sheriff suspects Belle Barker knows something.

Four years later, like something out of Dickens, Priscilla is living a world of wealth. She had a new name-and a new life in Nashville. While scrubbing pots in Belle's kitchen in the saloon, a benefactor had appeared. She'd made a name for herself as a highly skilled horsewoman. And the beautiful debutante had fallen in love with her benefactor, the handsome and wealthy Clint Wilder. Priscilla's good fortune cannot erase the past, and she can't outrun it. When a murder trial summons her back to Maury County, she must confront the man she fears most. Then, something terrible happened. It was when the loons went silent. And the locals suspect Priscilla.

ROMANCE, SUSPENSE, MURDER

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0997381930
• ISBN13: 9780997381931
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Brier Hill Books
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"