Julie Tulips

Jules "Julie" Tulips thought Sweet Spring, South Carolina, would be a quiet place to check out the land his uncle left him. Instead, he finds himself framed for the murder of the town's richest-and most hated-man, Caspar Odwolf.

When Julie's gun is used in the killing while he's safely behind bars, it's clear someone wants him to take the fall. But they picked the wrong patsy. Teaming up with Emanuel Baker, a soon-to-retire Black police sergeant with thirty years of street smarts, Julie discovers that Odwolf's death is just the tip of a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of Sweet Spring's power structure.

From corrupt cops to racist rednecks, from a pregnant woman in hiding to a preacher with secrets, Julie and Baker must navigate a tangled web of greed, murder, and small-town corruption. With a waitress who can shoot as well as she can serve coffee, a no-nonsense accountant who packs heat, and a one-eyed German shepherd named Winston, this unlikely team races against time to expose the truth.

But someone doesn't want the truth to come out-and they're willing to kill to keep it buried. In a town where money talks and justice walks, can a Yankee PI-in-training and a veteran Southern cop survive long enough to bring down the real killers?

A rollicking Southern mystery filled with humor, heart, and enough bullets to keep you turning pages until the very last shot is fired.