(Suspense)

When a band of home invaders known as Savages escalate to murder, detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry must track down the killers, but a twisted game is in play, a game more ruthless than the detectives can imagine.

> Three women are caught in the grip of the past in this Southern gothic mystery from the beloved twentieth-century American author. >There’s nothing to stop Pock Myles, single and unattached, from traveling to Louisiana to comfort her recently widowed and pregnant sister, Rye. But this is no ordinary visit. Recently, there have been bizarre happenings at Larchwood, the vast estate where Rye’s staying with their aunt. >When Pock arrives, Rye takes her to the nearby cemetery where her husband is buried — and his grave desecrated. An odd doll and cruel messages had previously been left there, and now, scorched into the surrounding grass are the words Not Here. Pock is caught off guard by her aunt’s dismissal of such things as a prank — and by her most unwelcoming attitude. One thing’s certain: something wrong and unexplained stalks the halls of Larchwood. A strange evil seems directed at Rye, and it’s up to Pock to uncover it . . .

The story of a girl wrongly suspected of a murder. She is a music student in New York. She goes out to Arizona and her friends go with her to help protect her. Gothic mystery. From the back of the book:The first discordant note is struck when pretty young musical student Bridget Evans stumbles upon the strangled corpse of a wealthy benefactor, Liz Conway. The theme of terror deepens when no one believes Bridget's story about the mysterious man she saw leaving the scene of the crime. Soon even the lyric strain of love is poisoned by suspicion as Bridget discovers the charming young man who has unexpectedly appeared in her life is not who he claims to be. The chorus of deception and danger around Bridget rises to a deafening pitch---until her beautiful voice becomes a desperate scream...