Release Date: April 29, 2025
About The Book:
Oak Hill, North Carolina is a sleepy community where nothing exciting ever happens, a town so tiny it has no room for secrets. So when a stranger is found murdered in a cornfield, Detective Grace Bingham is forced to partner with Jacob Sawyer—a big city detective who broke her heart and fled the town years prior—in order to uncover the explosive truth.
As Grace ID’s the Jane Doe, her identity points toward their tragic case from fifteen years ago and the powerful Dockery family. Grace and Sawyer race to piece together their case, armed with new evidence for the first time in decades, even if the town has turned against them. After all, everybody has a secret they’d kill to keep.
About The Author:
Benjamin Bradley is a member of both Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. He’s the author of the Shepard & Kelly Mystery series through Indies United Publishing House and his short fiction has appeared in literary magazines including Reckon Review and Flash Fiction Magazine. He works in public health and homelessness and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife, their cat Fox, and their dog Harper. https://benjaminbradleywrites.com/
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Book Blurbs:
“What He Left Behind is a compelling, heartfelt debut, announcing Benjamin Bradley’s welcome arrival on the literary scene. This whodunnit expertly weaves the dangerous secrets of past and present in small-town Appalachia, delivering a jaw-dropping conclusion that’s well worth your time. Bradley has the goods, and I can’t wait to see what he cooks up next.” —Scott Blackburn, author of It Dies with You
“Benjamin Bradley has his finger on the pulse of small-town life: the thorny relationships between the haves and the have-nots, the currency of gossip, the distrust of outsiders, and the casual familiarity everyone has with the details of each other’s lives. Oak Hill has its share of secrets, and when a citizen discovers the body of a young woman–the first murder victim in the town’s history–Detective Grace Bingham knows she will have to kick open some doors that have long been closed. And some doors want to stay shut. Heartbreak and tragedy from the past collide with the present, and no one in Grace’s life, including herself, is safe. Bradley uses the conventions of a murder mystery to conduct his own autopsy of Oak Hill and its residents, and no one is spared. A worthy addition to the Southern Gothic tradition.” —Christopher Swann, author of the Faulkner Family Thriller series
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