Description

In the waning days of World War I William K Dean was brutally murdered his body hogtied and dumped in a rainwater cistern on his farm in the quiet town of Jaffrey New Hampshire Suspicion quickly fell on Deans wife an invalid in the early stages of dementia Her friends outraged at the accusations pointed instead to a former tenant of Deans whom many suspected of being a German spy Others believed that Deans best friend a politically powerful banker and judge was involved

Deep Water is based on extensive research into the Dean murder including thousands of pages of FBI documents Grand Jury testimonies newspaper accounts private correspondence and the archives of the Jaffrey Historical Society