BEHIND A VEIL OF TRANQUILITYIn the lovely town of Pleasant Valley in upstate New York, the maple trees were ablaze with falls blood-red color. The air was crisp. And a woman named Susan Fassett left her weekly choir practice at a church  when a killer emerged from the shadows and mercilessly gunned her down

WAS A REALM OF SEXUAL DEPRAVITY WHERE MURDER WAS THE LAST SIN.Stunned, the police immediately suspected Susan Fassetts husband and surrounded his home. They couldnt have been more wrong. Susan Fassett had been living a secret life, lost in a world of dominance, lesbian sex, betrayal  and a depraved plan for murder. After detectives untangled a web of secrets and corruption hidden in plain sight, the town of Pleasant Valley would be rocked again when a shocking trial exposed the whole sordid truthPhelps is one of Americas finest true-crime writers.  Vincent Bugliosi