Incident at Tibwin Plantation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798318841323)

She asked the questions no one wanted answered. It cost her everything.

Patricia "Patty" Wallace is sixty-six, recently retired, and visiting her daughter's family in Charleston when she begins to notice what others have learned to ignore. Uneasy glances over dinner. Whispered warnings drifting through humid Lowcountry nights. Fractures running beneath the surface of a family holding itself together by silence alone.

Her questions lead to Tibwin Plantation, where a failed business venture conceals something far more dangerous: a laundering operation with ties to unsolved gang killings, unexplained disappearances, and a ruthless criminal whose reach extends deeper into Charleston than anyone will admit. Patty's investigation is quiet, careful, and deeply personal. But in a place where power survives through fear and secrets are inherited rather than chosen, even the gentlest questions can provoke a violent answer. When Patty vanishes on her drive home, the silence she fought to break becomes the very thing that threatens to bury her.

Now Detective Abe Landers must untangle years of corruption, betrayal, and buried loyalties in a landscape that remembers everything and forgives nothing. In the Lowcountry, truth does not announce itself. It seeps. And when the reckoning finally comes, it will demand a price from everyone who chose to look away. Incident at Tibwin Plantation is a gripping literary crime novel about the moral cost of silence, the inheritance of secrets, and the ordinary courage it takes to speak when speaking might be fatal.