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L. S. R. Books

May 9, 2025
Our newest book in the Dana De Witte mystery series is out now on Kindle and available on Kindle Unlimited. In book one of the series, If He’d Never Seen, true-crime writer Dana De Witte helps bring a murderer to justice. Dana is back in the second installment of the Dana De Witte Mystery series, Musket Ball Murder. The small town of Meadesdeal, North Carolina, lives only in our imaginations and in our Dana De Witte Mystery books. We created it to be a picturesque spot in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. A place for tourists to shop and enjoy the scenery. But as appealing as it is, it holds many dark secrets. Musket Ball Murder begins with an unexpected death at a Revolutionary War reenactment. It’s an annual event for Meadesdeal, and tragically, the death of Dempsey Royce is witnessed by nearly everyone in town and hundreds of tourists who’ve come to town just for the event. With no shortage of witnesses, you would expect that the crime would be easy to solve, but nothing could be further from the truth. Dana soon learns that the death of Dempsey Royce maybe very well be bound up in events that happened many years ago—and maybe not even in Meadesdeal. Dana searches through Dempsey’s past to learn as much about him as possible to find his killer. She follows him to a long-ago New Year’s Eve party to celebrate the new millennium, uncovers the details of a failed video game startup business in Meadesdeal—a failure that led him to move away, and learns about other businesses he has been involved with over the intervening years. Could something in his past have led to his death? Has someone been patiently waiting to take their revenge? Or is it something more recent? Dempsey has only been back in Meadesdeal for a few months at the time of his death. What has he been up to and why is he back in town? Join Dana De Witte as she uncovers the truth of the death of Dempsey Royce. Click here to get Musket Ball Murder