Avalon Books

Ten years ago Frank Lester, a Chicago homicide detective, thought he had rid himself forever of the Mud People Killer who’d kidnapped and murdered six people. Frank had shot him as he’d fled through a snowy night, and he believed, had killed him, though a...

Abigail Sutton’s beloved husband walks out one night and two years later is found dead. Starting a new life, Abigail moves to a small town and buys a fixer-upper house left empty when old Edna Summers died. At one time, it was home to Edna’s...