After the Storm: A Vermont Village Mystery

by Dan Marshall

Kate Stone has just left a toxic marriage behind her and bought a fixer-upper in Merryfield, a small town in Vermont, where she is immediately labeled a "rich divorcee out to steal husbands and wreck marriages." She meets two handsome brothers, Ben and Rory Fremantle, and incurs the bitter jealousy of Tiffany Thompson, Ben's girlfriend. She has a dinner date with Rory, and it looks like romance is blooming for them. But then, after a massive spring storm, Rory is found dead on the bank of Wandering Brook.

When an autopsy reveals that Rory was murdered, the small-town gossip machine labels Kate a murderer. But Kate not only proves her innocence, she helps the Chief of Merryfield's overwhelmed police force to solve the mystery and find the killer.

302 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 31, 2025

About the author

DAN MARSHALL grew up in a nice home with nice parents in Salt Lake City, Utah, before attending UC Berkeley. After college, Dan worked at a strategic communications public relations firm in Los Angeles. At 25, he left work and returned to Salt Lake to take care of his sick parents. While caring for them, he started writing detailed accounts about many of their weird, sad, funny adventures. Home is Burning is his first book.

Reviews

[Kam · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved reading this book because it is set in small town Vermont. l have a lot of memories of Vermont where I lived for my first thirteen years. Very interesting and exciting!

[Bbouffard · Rating 5 out of 5]

After the Storm is a beautifully written novel about a divorced woman from CT, who moves to a small town in VT. She meets a nice fellow who turns up murdered. She finds herself being accused of the murder, because she is an outsider.

[Jude Marshall · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. It is a beautiful cozy mystery, and I can't wait for the next book to come out.