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

When Marshall McEwan remaining his hometown at age eighteen, he vowed never to return. The stress that drove him apart ultimately spurred him to become perhaps one of the most successful journalists in Washington D.C. And the politics chaos in the nation’s capital elevates him to new heights, about Cemetery Road: A Book Marshall is pressured to return home in spite of his boyhood vow.

His dad is dying, his mother is struggling to keep carefully the family newspapers from faltering, and the city is in the midst of an economic rebirth that could be built upon offences that reach in to the condition capitol-and maybe even to Washington. More disturbing still, Marshall’s high school sweetheart, Jet, has married into the family of Maximum Matheson, patriarch of one of the family members that guideline Bienville through a shadow organization called the Bienville Texas holdem Club.

When archeologist Buck McKibben is murdered at a building site, Bienville is thrown into chaos. The ensuing homicide analysis is quickly derailed by another crime that rocks the community to its primary. Power broker Potential Matheson’s wife continues to be shot dead in her personal bed, and the only various other person in it at the time was her husband, Utmost. Stranger still, Max needs that his daughter-on-law, Plane, defend him in courtroom.

As a journalist, Marshall knows all as well well how the corrosive power of money and politics can sabotage investigations. Without telling a spirit, he joins forces with Jet, who has resided for fifteen years at the heart of Max Matheson’s family members, and starts digging into both murders. With Jet walking the dangerous road of an inside informer, they quickly uncover an internet of criminal techniques that undergird the town’s recent achievement. But these crimes pale compared to the secret at the heart from the Matheson family. When those who have continued to be silent for a long time dare to talk with Marshall, pressure starts to build like drinking water against a crumbling dam.

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