The Cover Story
Reporter Branigan Powers is still reeling from the events of The Cantaloupe Thief when two college students crash into the north Georgia woods along a rural highway. It looks like an accident. But when the surviving girl wakens, she tells a curious story of a vehicle that forced them off the road – an old-fashioned, 1950s-style hearse.
Thus begins a mystery that has Branigan bouncing between a college campus and the town’s homeless encampment, as she tries to make sense of the bizarre links between the two.
The Cover Story reunites Branigan with the homeless Malachi Martin, so adept at seeing what isn’t there rather than what is.
About Deb Richardson-Moore (Greenville, South Carolina Author)
Deb Richardson-Moore is a former writer for The Greenville News and current pastor of Triune Mercy Center, a non-denominational church that includes Greenville's homeless residents in a worshiping community. She is author of a memoir, The Weight of Mercy, about her first three years as a pastor, and two novels, The Cantaloupe Thief and The Cover Story. All were published by Lion Hudson of Oxford, England.
The Weight of Mercy was on the 2016 reading list of United Methodist Women.
The Cantaloupe Thief, the first in the Branigan Powers mystery series, was published in 2016, and uses a homeless encampment as a partial setting. It was an Okra Pick of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance as a book that sellers liked to recommend.The second Branigan Powers mystery, The Cover Story, was released in 2017.
Deb is a Greenville native and a graduate of Wade Hampton High School, Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC) and Erskine Theological Seminary (Due West, SC).
She is married to Vince Moore, who is director of media relations for Furman University. They have three grown children – Dustin, Taylor and Madison.
