She survived multiple deployments. She didn't expect Durham to be harder. After twenty years and multiple deployments in Army Military Intelligence, Lieutenant Colonel Ren Murphy shows up for the reading of her grandmother's will expecting a keepsake and her mother's ashes. She walks out with a coffee shop and a town that calls her a flatlander. She's barely unpacked when a body turns up on Main Street and the whole town goes watchful. Ren knows what a guilty person looks like. She's sat across from liars in rooms smaller than interrogation cells. She knows what a body looks like when someone helped it get that way. She also knows she's being looked at. Detective Marc Bombard of the Vermont State Police Major Crimes Unit has questions. Durham's Constable Alex Young has more. The town has gossip. Ren has method. None of it is enough to stop what's already in motion. Doppio of Death is the first book in The Durham Chronicles - a grounded, gritty mystery series set in the hills of northern Vermont, where the community runs deep, the secrets run deeper, and one veteran's instincts may be the only thing standing between a killer and a clean getaway.