A Specter of Justice
A Sam Blackman Mystery

When private detective Sam Blackman agrees to help his partner and lover, Nakayla Robertson, conduct a fundraiser for orphaned twins, he does so to ease his conscience. The boys parents were killed in a courtroom shootout where Sam was the key witness against the twins father. The charity event, a nighttime ghost tour of the legendary haunted sites of Asheville, North Carolina, seems harmless enough. Sam only has to tell the story of a grief-stricken woman who hanged herself from an old, arched stone bridge. Helen, come forth, he cries. Sam and his tourgoers expect the actress playing Helens ghost to walk toward them from the bridges dark recesses. Instead, her body tumbles from overhead and dangles at the end of a noose. Someone has reenacted the legend with deadly authenticity. When a second murder mimics another old ghost tale, the police fear a macabre serial killer is on the prowl. But the case isnt Sams to solve. Then, a tidal wave of evidence begins to point to one manSams friend, defense attorney Hewitt Donaldson. Sam and Nakayla, firmly believing in Donaldsons innocence, must not only prove it but halt a murderer seemingly bent on retribution. Does the killers motivation rise from the present, or is Team Donaldson dealing with some specter from the past?