THE 5 MANNERS OF DEATH

After a construction worker unearths a human skull on the campus of the University of Mississippi dating to the 1960s, an older woman&rsquo,s desperate attempt to erase history counts down the five manners of death. Dr. Diana Bratton is a surgeon surrounded by bodies after the discovery of her Aunt Phoebe&rsquo,s 50-year-old note detailing the manners of death. Suicide, accident, natural cause, and one death classified undetermined are soon crossed off this list&mdash,leaving Diana to believe that only murder remains. When Diana spots photographs in a 1966 university yearbook, Phoebe is linked not only to that death, but to the recent deaths of two local men. Diana is torn between pursuing Phoebe&rsquo,s innocence and accepting police theory that her aunt is involved in the murder of several men she knew in college. In &ldquo,The 5 ,Manners of Death,&rdquo, Dr. Diana Bratton steals precious time from her young daughter, her surgical practice, and her hopes for renewed romance to clear Aunt Phoebe&rsquo,s name of multiple murder and uncover the significance of the list. Even as Diana searches Phoebe&rsquo,s home basement for evidence, she works to trump the police and outrun the conspiracy between her ex-husband and Phoebe&rsquo,s long-time lover&mdash,her quest to expose the truth overshadowed by a need to rebury the past. Even though she realizes there is a chance to save her shrinking family, Diana understands that of the five ways to die, murder is her family secret._,