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Hick Blackburn is falling apart. Last year, the world had been full of hope and promise after solving a murder and corruption case in nearby Broken Creek. Attorney Carol Quinn's uncle, the head of the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department, had offered both Hick and Carol jobs in DC. Hick had a wife, two boys, and a baby on the way. Now, everything is different. It's as if hope and promise no longer exist. And then Quinn shows up again. This time, it's with a new case to solve and when Hick finds out his friend Father Grant is in the hospital and his church has been torched, he can't say no. But this time, corruption is the least of his problems.

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With Below the Surface , Graham delivers on all three of the things that every reader desires in a good murder mystery. First, you need to be sucked into the story to the point where you feel like you're right alongside Sheriff Hick Blackburn and U.S. Attorney Carol Quinn as they investigate the crime. Second, you want to be transported into a new and unexplored universe, a place and time far apart from your own in this case the Ozarks of northern Arkansas in the 1950s. And third, you hope it's more than just a straight forward detective story. That last point is where Graham really delivers the goods. Because in addition to solving the killing that backbones the plot, Below the Surface also examines the hatred, prejudice, misogyny and xenophobia that was prevalent at that time and that continue to plague America more than half a century later. To paraphrase Sheriff Hick Blackburn, there's an odd stirring in your heart and your imagination's caught from the first few pages of Graham's mightily compelling mystery. Joe Yogerst, author of Nemesis: A Novel of Old California Set against the violent backdrop of desegregation during the mid-fifties, Graham's Hick Blackburn is looking worse for wear but reads better than ever before. He's got nothing to lose and more human than ever in this tightly written, fast-moving fourth installment. Graham's uncanny ability of making her down-to-earth hero rise to the occasion yet again sucked me in immediately. It's the best yet in the brilliant series. Jon James Miller, author of Looking for Garbo Graham transports you into a world of poverty, powerlessness and religious conflict in a small rural town in Arkansas. Lots of plot twists and interesting characters with an ending that is both satisfying and poignant. A moving story and a good mystery. Charlotte Stuart, author of Survival Can Be Deadly

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Cynthia A. Graham was born in St. Louis, Missouri. As a child she spent every weekend and vacation in the cotton belt of Missouri where she grew to love the mystery and beauty of the stark, Delta Plain. Cynthia graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Missouri – St. Louis with a B.A. in English. She has won several awards for her short stories and has been published in a number of anthologies. Between the Lies follows the first two books in her historical mystery series featuring Sheriff Hick Blackburn, Beneath Still Water and Behind Every Door, which both won IPPY and MIPA awards.

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