The Grass Widow
by Teri Holbrook
from Bantam
After a tragic exile in England, Gale Grayson returns to her Southern roots with her daughters, only to discover an old scandal that forces her to sort out the truth about the deaths of two of her relatives, forcing her to dig into the town's dark secrets, as well as her own painful past.
The Mother Tongue
by Teri Holbrook
from Crimeline
Gale Grayson has come back to Statlers Cross, Georgia, to write, hoping to find in her quiet hometown the strength to confront the memories and mysteries of her husband's life and death.
But the delicate balance in the rural community has been altered by outsiders: a family of immigrants and a visiting professor who hopes to study the area's most isolated residents -- families with a dialect and rules of their own.
In a place trapped between the present and the past, a shocking act of violence uncovers dark and dangerous truths about people whose roots go back for generations. The ties between the living and the dead are strong, and even the presence of visiting Scotland Yard detective Daniel Halford may not help unravel such a brutal crime.
It falls to Gale, her grandmother Ella, and her precocious daughter, Katie Pru, to piece together a terrifying tapestry of history and hatred whose tangled threads weave a complicated tale of betrayal. Yet it is in the photographs of Gale's young protegee Nadianna Jesup that the truth may be found ... a truth that is sheer murder for anyone who stumbles across it.
A Far and Deadly Cry
by Teri Holbrook
from Crimeline
When a young babysitter is found brutally murdered, Chief Inspector Daniel Halford is forced to question her employer, Gale Grayson, a disturbed woman who became a widow three years earlier after her husband committed suicide.
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