In her isolated vineyard home two hours away, Laura Gretchell is on edge. The police’s main suspect-the property caretaker-has disappeared. The bodies of his wife and children are found on the second floor, bound, gagged and stabbed repeatedly. Scott Singleton, former NFL star turned television evangelist, lies dead. The lights are on in the Singleton vacation home on Lopez Island, Washington, illuminating the horror within.

ONCE YOU LET THEM IN, THEY WILL NEVER LET YOU GO. And the more Ellie discovers, the more she’s convinced that she won’t live long enough to be believed… Neither the police nor the school will accept the horrific truth. A copycat is recreating those long-ago murders. When Hannah and Eden’s arrival to the college coincides with a string of mysterious deaths, Ellie knows it’s more than just a fluke. And her journalism professor, Ellie Goodwin, keeps delving into Hannah and Eden’s newsworthy past… Hannah isn’t thrilled-nor can she shake the feeling that she’s being watched. Yet they’ve ended up at the same small college outside Chicago, sharing a bungalow with another girl.

Hannah O’Rourke and her volatile half-sister, Eden, have little in common except a parent. But there is one person who knows every twisted detail… Three more students and a teacher were killed in a sickening spree that many have forgotten. It’s been fifty years since the Immaculate Conception Murders. The site of the old campus bungalow where two girls were brutally slain is now a flower patch covered with chrysanthemums. Eclipsing Nora’s fear for her safety is her secret growing conviction that she and the killer are somehow connected-and the haven that was her home has become her own personal battlefield…. It's the beginning of a terrifying pattern, as women war-plant workers like Nora are targeted throughout Seattle and murdered. Amid this turmoil, a sinister tragedy occurs: One of Nora’s coworkers is found strangled in her apartment. Nora is also worried she’s neglecting her children, especially her withdrawn, troubled teenage son. Yet, while the country needs their help, not everyone is happy about “all these women” taking over men’s jobs. She joins America’s women’s work force…Īt Boeing’s B-17 plant, Nora learns to wield a heavy riveting gun amid the deafening noise of the assembly line-a real -life counterpart to “Rosie the Riveter” in the recruitment posters.

1943, Seattle, the World War II Home Front: With her doctor husband stationed in North Africa, Nora Kinney feels compelled to do more for the cause than tend to her Victory Garden or help with scrap metal drives.

Kino-Eye by Kevin O'Brien