Muddy Waters

Amazon bestseller.

The past is like a funnel from which you can’t escape…

Southern Louisiana—misty bayous, tangled waterways, and black water that keeps other people’s secrets. A nightmare begins among ancient cypress trees wrapped in Spanish moss and swamps where alligators rule.

Willla Waters, a journalist and psychologist, returns to her hometown Broken Bayou for just a couple of days: to pick up the remaining things from her mother’s and aunts’ house and then go back to her usual life. But instead of a calm farewell with the past, she has to face what has been waiting for its hour for a long time.

In the muddy waters of the bayou, killed women are found one after another, hidden in metal barrels.

Suzy Wiserton disappeared after visiting a casino.

Katharina Boudreau, a young teacher, went missing after a party in New Orleans.

Fifteen-year-old Destiny Smith from Alabama ran away from home and never returned.

Terry Thompson from Biloxi vanished during a trip to a jazz festival.

And this is only the beginning—the number of victims is growing too fast.

But the real blow is waiting for Willa ahead: in the same bayou they find her mother’s convertible— and then a video cassette falls into her hands, a recording capable of destroying Willa’s life and her family’s. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes: the past isn’t just nearby—it’s hunting her.