BAD TIDINGS, 2nd book in the RBPD series
This book also has had 4 publishers, and the final edition was re-edited. Some of the characters from the first book in the Rocky Bluff P.D. series appear in BAD TIDINGS, but the main character is Lt. Gilbreath. He often has to deliver bad news to relatives of accident or muder victims Gilbreath and his wife were inspired by a couple of our friends. He was the vice-principal at the highschool my kids attended, and I spent a lot of time with his wife. A warning: this book has some rather dark places in it. The mysteries came from actual happenings (fictionalized, of course) I either heard about or read about in the newspaper. I wrote this series as F.M. Meredith. To buy: https://www.amazon.com/Tidings-Rocky-Bluff-P-D-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B08B4ZSZBR/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2REBS6ZPQHBZB&keywords=bad+tidings+by+f.+m.+meredith&qid=1693576180&s=books&sprefix=bad+tidings+by+f.+m.+meredtih%2Cstripbooks%2C381&sr=1-1 Marilyn