Lethal by Sandra Brown

Widow Honor Gillette lives with her four-year-old daughter Emily on the bayou in southern Louisiana. Her late husband, Eddie, was a police officer killed in a horrific auto accident. When Emily tells Honor there is a sick man outside, life is turned upside down for Honor. On the run for a travesty he claims he didn't commit, Lee Coburn is running from the law and searching for something he is sure Honor's husband has hidden. Honor has no idea what Eddie might have hidden, but her faith in trusted friends of the family is destroyed and she doesn't know what to believe. Her goal is to prove that Eddie was a "clean" cop, not tainted with the corruption of the darker side of life, human trafficking, drugs and guns. Brown writes a fast-paced page-turner of a suspense thriller. Hard to put down.