Title: Lowcountry bribe
Description: A killer wants to make certain she buys the farm.   Threats, a missing boss, a very dead co-worker, a high-level investigation and a sinister hog farmer: Lowcountry Ag Department manager Carolina Slade is a bean-counting civil servant in hot water.   Carolina Slade is a by-the-book county manager for the Department of Agriculture-- a civil servant who coordinates federal loans for farmers in the coastal Lowcountry of South Carolina. When one of her clients, a hog farmer named Jessie Rawlings, offers her a bribe, Slade reports Jessie to her superiors.
Subjects: Bribery, Civil service ethics, Fiction