The successful author of three “vampire novels,” Hill Roland has left New York City to come back home to Merchantsville, Georgia, where he plans to undertake a different kind of writing project. What he and his literary agent wife don’t have any way of knowing, is that the small town he grew up in will turn out to be much more dangerous than the city he left, and that the decision that seemed so right will turn to be a fatal mistake. In this third novel in the Hunter Jones mystery series, Hunter, who has just married Sheriff Sam Bailey, helps uncover the motive behind the murder.

Looking for peace and quiet to write a novel, Hunter Jones left Atlanta for a job at a weekly newspaper in Merchantsville, Georgia, a town so small that everybody knows everybody else's business. She quickly discovers that gossip travels faster than the press can run, and she's a bit of an outsider looking in until she goes to a grand old mansion for an interview with the president of the historical society. That’s when she finds herself in the middle of a crime scene.  Now, if she can only get Sheriff Sam Bailey to take her hunches seriously...

Missed You in Church, the fourth Hunter Jones mystery, begins one hot July day when Sheriff Sam Bailey leaves a Sunday morning church service to respond to a crime – the murder of Sunday School teacher Noreen Bremmer in her own kitchen. As Sam’s wife, Hunter Jones, keeps the news on the front page, and tries to be a supportive friend to her new reporter, Noreen’s stepdaughter, long-buried secrets begin to be exposed. Liars are surprised to learn that they’ve been lied to, and a surprise visitor to a funeral gets a very unfriendly response. Meanwhile, tempers are flaring, and it’s too late to call off the biggest wedding of the season, and one more dangerous secret is waiting to be discovered.