Shadow Image

The Underhill family has loomed over Pennsylvania politics for four generations as the most powerful in the state. Now, with their youngest son locked in a tight gubernatorial race, a simple accident threatens to derail the entire campaign. After Floss Underhill, the family matriarch, has been discovered alive after falling from a gazebo into a ravine, Brenna Kennedy gets brought in as a defense attorney to the family. The police don't seem to believe that her fall was an accident, however, and soon neither does Brenna. Jim Christensen, a psychologist, memory expert, and Brenna's partner as they raise their children together, has been studying Floss Underhill for months in a group of Alzheimer's patients. Her mind ravaged by the disease, her body broken by the fall, Floss Underhill nevertheless knows something, and is trying to tell Christensen a family secret so explosive it could bring down an empire. To help bring it out of her, though, will make them powerful enemies, and bring both the truth-and the danger-very close to home…Martin J. Smith writes a damned good whodunit. Shadow Image hooks you … right through to the last page.-Michael Connelly, New York Times bestselling author of The Black BoxPowerful figures tread a dangerous path through dementia, pity, and murder in Martin J. Smith's compelling new novel. …No reader will walk away untouched.-Taylor Smith, author of Random Acts