Cemetery Road: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

The #1 New York Times bestselling writer of the Natchez Burning trilogy returns with an electrifying tale of friendship, betrayal, and shattering secrets that threaten to destroy a small Mississippi town.

When Marshall McEwan still left his hometown at age eighteen, he vowed to never return. The injury that drove him away eventually spurred him to be one of the most successful journalists in Washington D.C. But just as the politics chaos in the nation’s capital lifts him to brand-new heights, about Cemetery Road: A Book Marshall is pressured to return home regardless of his boyhood vow.

His dad is dying, his mom is struggling to keep carefully the family paper from faltering, and the town is amid an economic rebirth that might be built upon crimes that reach in to the condition capitol-and maybe even to Washington. More disturbing still, Marshall’s senior high school sweetheart, Jet, provides married into the family of Potential Matheson, patriarch of one of the households that rule Bienville through a shadow organization known as the Bienville Poker Club.

When archeologist Buck McKibben is murdered at a building site, Bienville is thrown into chaos. The ensuing homicide investigation is shortly derailed by another crime that rocks the community to its primary. Power broker Potential Matheson’s wife continues to be shot deceased in her own bed, as well as the just various other person in it at that time was her hubby, Utmost. Stranger still, Potential needs that his daughter-on-law, Plane, defend him in courtroom.

Being a journalist, Marshall knows all too well how the corrosive power of money and politics can sabotage investigations. Without informing a soul, he joins causes with Jet, who has resided for fifteen years in the centre of Utmost Matheson’s family, and starts digging into both murders. With Jet walking the dangerous road of an inside informer, they soon uncover an internet of criminal strategies that undergird the town’s latest achievement. But these offences pale in comparison to the secret at the heart from the Matheson family members. When those who have continued to be silent for years dare to speak to Marshall, pressure begins to build like water against a crumbling dam.

Marshall loses close friends, family members, and finally even Jet, for nobody in Bienville seems willing to endure the reckoning the fact that Poker Club offers long deserved. And by enough time Marshall grasps the long-buried truth, he’d give almost anything not to have to encounter it.