"One of today's finest mystery writers" —Carolyn G. Hart

THE FAMILY THAT DIES TOGETHER...  

Everyone in the small, tightly knit community of Black Cat Ridge, Texas, knows everyone else’s business. And everyone is stunned by the slaying of the well-liked Lester family, minus its youngest member, in their own home. Apparently loving husband and father Roy did the bloody deed—before turning the murder weapon on himself.  

The Pughs were the Lesters’ nearest neighbors and closest friends. In fact, sharp-tongued housewife/romance writer E.J. Pugh first discovered the bodies... and four-year-old Bessie Lester, who may have witnessed the carnage. But Bessie isn’t speaking. And E.J. may be the only one in Black Cat Ridge who believes this case is not closed... and that a murderer still walks among them all.  

“Susan Rogers Cooper is a gifted and perceptive writer
whose characters are second to none”
—Sharyn McCrumb, author of The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter