A GOOD MAN'S FIRE (COLE ROURKE MYSTERY)

In Brackwater Cove, South Carolina, comfort is a weapon—and faith can hide anything.Sheriff Cole Rourke has spent ten years trying to outlive the night his family was murdered in Charleston. The wrong man went to prison. The truth stayed buried. And Cole learned to function with the kind of grief that never loosens its grip—quietly, stubbornly, and with just enough whiskey off-duty to dull the edges.Then a county inspector turns up dead. Then another. The scenes are strangely clean, almost careful—until the patterns start to surface. A missing witness. A choir member collapsing at a vigil. Fires that burn paper before they burn buildings. And a charitable powerhouse that always seems to arrive with light right when the town is most afraid.As connections emerge between new murders and older, forgotten cases, Cole is pulled into a ruthless cat-and-mouse hunt where every clue feels staged, every ally becomes suspect, and the killer isn’t hiding in the dark—he’s hiding close, using trust as camouflage and Cole’s own history as leverage.Because in Brackwater Cove, evil doesn’t always come screaming.Sometimes it comes smiling, offering help… and striking the match in a good man’s hands.A GOOD MAN’S FIRE is a gritty, propulsive thriller packed with sharp forensic realism, dark humor, and escalating dread—Book One in the Cole Rourke series. Read more