Night Rain

Dibber Landry lives in his uncle’s house on Dauphin Island, a barrier island near the mouth of Mobile Bay. As a hurricane approaches most of the island’s permanent residents evacuate. But not Dibber Landry. He stays behind. When the eye of the storm passes over Dibber sets out in his boat to plunder damaged beach houses before the owners have an opportunity to return. When he rummages through Inez Marchand’s house he finds more than he expected. A dead body is lying in the bedroom and Dibber has stumbled across secrets Inez has kept buried for years. When Dibber pawns some of the things he took from the house the police trace the items back to Dibber and charge him with murder. That’s when he turns to Mike Connolly. The only problem is, no one seems to know the dead man’s identity. Defending Dibber takes Connolly on a strange trail through Inez Marchand’s past, the unsolved murder of the dead man’s grandfather, and a tangled web of secrets from the past no one wants to explore.

Night Rain will be available in bookstores in April 2007. You can read more about it now at www.joehilley.com