Derelict (paperback edition)

Liberty, South Carolina. Dogwood trees and mossy oaks line quiet, wide streets. Kids ride their bikes long after streetlights come on.A mysterious house. A reclusive widow. Unsolved murders that have haunted families for over a decade.Cassy Cordoba remembers the day her father died because of a case he couldn't solve. Her entire career as a police officer, following in her father's footsteps, has led up to this point.Now, as Liberty's newly hired lead detective, she's going back to where it all began.Missing teens presumed to be runaways. Uncooperative fellow officers. Media outlets that vilified her father's fervent attempts to bring a dark side of the sleepy town to light.Cassy vows to close the case her father didn't have the chance to. But can she do it without succumbing to the same fate?With the help of unlikely and reluctant confidants and with a passion and stubbornness that comes with the Cordoba family name, Cassy fights against corruption and authority to erase the stain on her father's legacy and bring justice and peace to the families whose loved ones will never come home due to the work of a sinister and elusive killer.Small towns bury big secrets. Cassy plans to excavate the truth and leave no stone unturned, bringing justice to a town that has yet to fully recover from its haunting history.*********************************************************************About the author: Rebecca Day is a singer, songwriter, performer, and front-woman of The Crazy Daysies. Her music is a blend of country, blues and Americana she calls 'swampytonk.'Though a professional musician, she has a degree in creative writing and grew up learning and loving the written word thanks to her writer-mother.Rebecca's debut novel, Derelict, is a mystery-crime-thriller based in small town South Carolina with a female sleuth hell-bent on solving a case her father never had the chance to.When she's not working, Rebecca spends her time in Jacksonville, FL with her husband and quirky mini-schnauzer Rusty