Small-town reporter Vince Marshall has a plan to be a better dad―wean himself from his cell phone and a 24/7 work mentality and spend more time with his toddler. But when his daughter discovers the local judge swinging from a noose at the playground and Vince’s friend becomes a murder suspect, that plan unravels. With toddler in tow, Vince knocks heads with a coworker out for his beat and a mayor with questionable motives while chasing clues left by a senile grave robber. Meanwhile, arson, vandalism, domestic violence, and a contested election have the normally staid residents of Apostle Bay, a quaint harbor town on the southern shore of Lake Superior, at odds. Add Vince’s wife Deb to the mix, leading a contentious protest at City Hall, and Vince finds his life once again out of control. Restoring order and saving his friend will require following a trail of deception to the solution of a 150-year-old mystery. Matthew Williams lives in Marquette, Michigan, on the southern shore of Lake Superior with his wife, Suzanne, and their son, Sam. Williams was an award-winning newspaper reporter, columnist, and author of the popular Tot Tales, a weekly column about fatherhood. His fiction and nonfiction writing regularly appears in regional and national publications. To learn more, visit mysterymatt.com. Superior Deception is the second of three novels in the Lake Superior mysteries.