Cynthia Leal Massey, "Well of Deception" (Stoney Creek Publishing, 2025)

New Books in Literature · Mar 3, 2026 · 25m

Leta Becker was thirty-seven when she married Amos after a fifteen-year courtship, and they never had kids. Leta and Amos are related to lots of people, but their closest neighbors are Leta’s brother, Sam and his wife, Maggie Schneider. Amos thinks the Schneiders use more than their fare share of water to raise turkeys, and Sam thinks Amos has something wrong with him, like all the Beckers. When Maggie is shot while feeding her turkeys one March morning in 1958, Amos is the main suspect, but he’s gone missing. Months pass and some think he fled to Mexico, but others suspect that like family…