Join us for a book signing with author Caroline Cleveland for her book, When Cicadas Cry.
"In this stunning debut by a South Carolina attorney, Zach Stander, a lawyer with a past, and Addie Stone, his indomitable detective and lover, find themselves entangled in secrets, lies, and murder in a small Southern town.
A high-profile murder case: A white woman has been bludgeoned to death with an altar cross in a rural church on Cicada Road in Walterboro, South Carolina. Sam Jenkins, a Black man, is found covered in blood, kneeling over the body. In a state already roiling with racial tension, this isn’t only a murder case – it’s a powder keg rolling through a wall of fire.
A haunting cold case: Two young women are murdered on quiet Edisto Beach, an hour southeast of Walterboro, and the killer disappears without a trace. Thirty-four years later the mystery remains unsolved. Could there be a connection to Stander’s case?
A killer who’s watching: Stander takes on Jenkins’s defense, but he’s up against a formidable solicitor with powerful allies. Worse, his client is hiding a bombshell secret. When Addie Stone reopens the cold case, she discovers more long buried secrets in this small town. Would someone K*ll again to keep them?
Ideal for fans of mystery, suspense, and thrillers in the vein of Karin Slaughter’s Pretty Girls and Stacy Willingham’s A Flicker in the Dark, as well as for readers who followed the high-profile Murdaugh murder trial, held in the same small town as in When Cicadas Cry."
A native South Carolinian, Caroline Cleveland inevitably writes from a Southern perspective. She gravitates—both as a writer and a reader—toward mystery and suspense, and she cannot resist a character with a dark secret. Caroline is the founding member of the law firm Cleveland & Conley, LLC, where she represents private and public employers, including law enforcement. She lives in Charleston, SC, with her husband, David. Visit her at www.CarolineClevelandAuthor.com
This event is sponsored by the SCWLA. South Carolina Women Lawyers Association is an association focused on enhancing the status, influence and effectiveness of women lawyers in the State of South Carolina. Please see our website for more information:
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