Skin Privilege by Karin Slaughter

Lena Adams has spent years trying to escape her troubled childhood in Reece, Georgia. Now a police detective in Heartsdale, she is drawn back to her hometown after a brutal murder leaves her as the prime suspect.

Police chief Jeffrey Tolliver and medical examiner Sara Linton arrive to help Lena, but a second victim and a hostile local community make the investigation increasingly dangerous. As they uncover a disturbing world of prejudice, violence and buried secrets, they must find the truth before the killer strikes again.

Skin Privilege is the sixth novel in Karin Slaughter's Grant County series, delivering a dark, intense crime thriller set in a town with plenty to hide.