Now best known for her New York Times-bestselling Sookie Stackhouse
novels, Charlaine Harris garnered an unusual degree of acclaim with
her first novel -- the story of a murder that embroils a small-town
reporter in a mystery that hits close to home.

Catherine Linton came home to Lowfield, Mississippi convinced that
the untimely deaths of her parents in a car accident was no accident -
but nobody believed her. So she stayed, taking a job at the local paper,
to try to both convince the sheriff that she was right-and maybe
convince herself she was wrong. After all, her father had been the town
doctor, loved (she always thought) by all. To think he was killed was
to think that one of her friends or neighbors has harbored some deep
resentment toward him. Then she finds the dead body of the women who
had been her father's nurse for many years. Obviously murdered.
Now Catherine knows that she was not wrong about her parent's death.
Someone in Lowfield has a terrible secret, a secret worth killing for.
Not once, not twice, but - when another body is found - three times.
And the killer won't hesitate to add more victims to the list,
as Catherine gets closer and closer to the truth.

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