Stories by @courtneybailey

What You Leave Behind

Returning to her childhood home in Georgia, Deena Wood, when a landowner fighting to keep his family's land, dating back to the Civil War, disappears, and his property is quickly put up for sale, exposes a deadly scheme of illegal land grabs and property redevelopment that threatens her community and family.

Dirty Little Secrets

Six neighbors, six secrets, six reasons to want Olive Collins dead. In the exclusive gated community of Withered Vale, people's lives appear as perfect as their beautifully manicured lawns. Money, success, privilege - the residents have it all. Life is good. There's just one problem. Olive Collins' dead body has been rotting inside number four for the last three months. The police start to ask questions and the seemingly flawless façade of Withered Vale begins to crack. Because, when it comes to Olive's neighbors, it seems each of them has something to hide, something to lose and everything to gain from her death.

The Last Party

The Last Party is a procedural mystery about the murder of a hateful man at a New Year's Eve Party. The suspect list is long …. and the number of secrets surrounding the murder is even longer. The plot centers on solving the murder of local celebrity Rhys Lloyd at his vacation home in a small town in Wales.

The Kind Worth Saving

In this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson, a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband, but little does he know that the twisted trail will lead back to the woman who hired him.