Testament: An Unexpected Return

"Brew up a pitcher of sweet tea and settle into your most comfortable chair. You won't want to put T. M. Brown's latest book down... Testament, An Unexpected Return offers more wrinkles than linen pants on a hot summer day." — Linda Pifer, acclaimed author of Ohio Girl and Windows trilogy.

The testament of a man lies not in the magnitude of possessions and property left to his heirs, but the reach of his legacy long after his death. — Theo Phillips

Theo and Liddy sink deep roots into their new hometown of Shiloh. Friendships are blossoming and life appears to be settling down, but ominous shadows from the town's past herald tragedy lies ahead. More than Theo's reputation is at stake this time. He gets drawn into prominent family drama after Dixie, estranged wife of the former mayor, arrives in town after she had abandoned her family twenty years ago. Though her mysterious arrival appears to be good for Harold's ailing health, others in town become rattled as Dixie's desperate scheming comes to light.

T. M. Brown once again captures the flavor of a small Southern town and realistically portrays the suspense and drama when the town's past surfaces to protect its legacy." T. M. Brown has delivered another novel with plenty of mystery and intrigue, filled with good plot twists that will keep you guessing until the end." — Lee Gimenez, best-selling author of the J. T Ryan Thriller series.

The Shiloh Mystery Series - Book 1, Sanctuary, A Legacy of Memories; Book 2, Testament, An Unexpected Return; Book 3, Purgatory, A Progeny's Quest.

T. M. Brown is a Southern boy at heart, although he's lived and traveled in many states far removed from his beloved boyhood roots in Georgia and Florida. After he returned he reconnected with the small towns throughout the South. He retired outside of Atlanta where he and his wife retired. When not wriitng, they travel and spoil grandchildren. T. M. Brown, Mike to friends and family, embraces his Georgia heritage, thanks to the paternal branches of his family tree. When his father passed in 2008, he learned of the hard times and sacrifice the Brown family endured during the Depression, which precipitated his grandfather leaving Georgia to find work in Miami. Mike holds fond memories of warm Sunday afternoons when his Pop drove the family past Stone Mountain in the late 1950s to visit his Great-Uncle's farm in Snellville. Those dust-filled red clay backroads have long been widened and paved, but Mike recalls the sting of barb-wire pasture fences, sipping cool well-water from a ladle, and getting scrubbed in a washtub as a youngster by the front stoop of Uncle Kerry's and Aunt Monk's old farmhouse. MIke loves family, faith, history, and small-town, rural stories.