Reasonable Fear (Joe Dillard Book 4) by Scott Pratt

"Pratt's richly developed characters are vivid and believable, especially the strong Southern women who fight their male-dominated culture from behind a facade of vulnerability."-- Publisher's Weekly

Three young women are found floating in a lake.

The suspect is one of the richest and most powerful men in Tennessee.

In the fourth installment of the bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard has become the district attorney in Northeast Tennessee. He becomes heavily involved in the investigation with Sheriff Leon Bates and soon realizes that he is up against an enemy that he has never before encountered -- someone so rich and so powerful that the course of justice could be altered by money and political influence. But when bodies start showing up in his driveway and his family is threatened with termination, Dillard must ask himself a previously unthinkable question. His life, and the lives of his family, depend on the answer.

Each Joe Dillard novel can be read as a standalone. There is no need to have read previous books in the series to enjoy this story.