Deemed Accidental - eBook

To the families lining up for model-home tours, Wyndham Meadows looks like the reward for doing everything right: bright living rooms, open kitchens, and quiet cul-de-sacs where kids can ride their bikes without worry. To the men who build it, the subdivision is something else—a hundred-million-dollar operation that has to keep moving, even when corners get cut and mistakes get buried.
When a county building inspector is found dead inside a house still under construction, the ugly truth starts to surface. Behind the fresh paint and new drywall are shortcuts, payoffs, and a development held together by profit and silence—an illusion some very powerful people don’t want disturbed.
Lieutenant Homer Watson spends more time making coffee than solving murders these days. But when he’s sent out to Wyndham Meadows to look at a body, he realizes this isn’t a case that’s going to stay quiet. As he follows the money through contractors, inspectors, and county offices, the pressure comes quickly and from all sides. Close the case. Call it an accident. Move on.
But Wyndham Meadows wasn’t built to stand up to questions. And as Homer keeps pushing, he’s forced to decide how much of his career—and how much of himself—he’s willing to give up to uncover what’s hidden inside its walls, before the subdivision takes another life.