Book description
Vanessa Sterling has abandoned the all consuming life of a Chicago
corporate lawyer to begin a new life in the sleepy fishing village of
Depoe Bay, Oregon. But a serious challenge arises when a long-lost son
returns and the past reemerges to entangle her in a web of lies, deceit,
and betrayal-the depths of which not only threaten her moral fiber, but
her very existence. To save her son from his sordid past, this misguided
mother begins to unravel deadly family secrets, pulling her into the
seedy underworld of a drug czar, only to discover her son is not so
innocent. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Fran Blacketer moved to
California in the late 1970s where she earned a master's degree in
psychology and taught at Saddleback College. She lived in Laguna Beach
where she met her artist husband, Jim, and they moved to Depoe Bay,
Oregon for six years before returning to southern California. While in
Oregon she found the central coast to be a haven for writers where
mystery and intrigue seemed to permeate the rugged coast line. “You
Can't Kill a Dead Man” is the first novel in a series of Vanessa
Sterling mysteries.
