Whispers

by Debra Walden Davis

The Anniversary Killer wants Lydia Janssen to have someone to mourn during The Day of the Dead Celebration. He’s given her three anniversary presents so far. ‘Who’ will he present her with for the fourth?Tennessee Deputy Sheriff Rick Hadley has a couple of unsolved murders. St. Louis Detectives Trish Rankin and John Hutsell have a stalking victim. As fate would have it, their cases are connected. The three investigators solve the case and gain national attention. They are celebrating in a St. Louis bar, when John receives a message from his aunt in Springfield, Missouri, “Elle’s in trouble again.” Out of a sense of family obligation, Hutsell begins a search for his cousin, Elle Wyatt. Hadley joins his friend and provides a new take on the ‘Elle’ situation. Elle doesn’t know it yet, but her greatest challenge won’t come from her past.

335 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 24, 2020

About the author

Debra Walden Davis, the daughter of two army veterans, was born in 1953 at Ft. Lewis, Washington. She spent most of her life until the age of 15, on military bases due her father’s military career.
She grew up in an atmosphere of patriotism and acute awareness of international affairs as her family was directly affected by what was happening in the world. In 1966, her father was deployed to Vietnam. Her mother, brother and sister moved to Seligman, Missouri, while her father served his country. She graduated from Rogers Senior High School in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1972.
From 1972 through 1976, she attended Southwest Missouri State University (today Missouri State University), earning a B.S. in Ed in Vocational Home Economics. She was awarded a MS in Ed from SMSU in Social Sciences in 1981. She attended night classes and summer school sessions to increase her areas of certification and now holds lifetime Missouri teaching certificates in four areas including Secondary Physics. She retired from teaching in 2014.
Debra lives in Southwest Missouri, where she loves watching classic movies, for as Steve Martin once said, “. . . all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.”