For Ottawa Citizen columnist Kris Redner, her Adirondack hometown is a place of bad memories buried deep in the past. Then she receives a videotape that brings the past into the present. Kris recognizes her sister Kathy, murdered nearly thirty years ago.

When Kris returns home to dig for the truth, she discovers that she’s the last loose end in a story that the town definitely doesn’t want told. One Dead Sister pits Kris against one of the most powerful men in America and a town that considers her sister’s death old, bad news.