What Remains of Teague House
A Mystery
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- €9.99
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- €9.99
Publisher Description
"This mystery is impossible to put down." — Edgar-nominated author Jess Lourey
For readers of Megan Collins with the taut character study of Angie Kim comes a searing mystery that follows three siblings as they reckon with the darkness hidden within their family after multiple graves are discovered behind their childhood home.
All families are complicated. But not all families have bodies buried in their backyard.
One put there just that week...
When the Rawlins family matriarch unexpectedly passes, all three adult children rush home. What they find is a house bursting with grief, dark memories surfacing around each corner, and multiple bodies buried deep in the woods. The Rawlins want to believe the discovery points to a crime long past.
But one of the graves behind Teague House is fresh, the earth disturbed just that week—and its inhabitant a local woman they all knew.
Is the youngest Rawlins sibling with something to hide somehow involved in her murder? Is his sister experiencing false memories of her late father digging near the graves? And why is the Rawlins aunt in such a rush to leave town after her sister's funeral?
Enter private detective Maddie Reed, who has her own reasons for being curious about the bodies buried behind Teague House. Maddie sets out to unmask a killer. One she may have been hunting all her life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Adult siblings return to their ancestral Oregon home in Johns's entertaining if unfocused debut. Each Rawlins sibling has their own baggage: eldest Jon is grieving his wife's death, middle child Sandra struggles with long-term relationships, and the youngest, Robby, is trying to paper over his recent separation. The three are forced back together when their long-suffering mother, Valerie, finally dies in the cabin their late father built. When the digging of Valerie's grave unearths the missing body of local mother Gayle Bethested and four other skeletons, the Rawlinses' dark secrets start to spill out. Might the bodies be connected to their father's suicide, or to Sandra's memory of watching him bury something in the forest several years ago? After the case attracts the attention of private detective Maddie Reed, who believes one of the skeletons may belong to her foster sister, more horrors are revealed. The hunt for the truth leads down a treacherous, bloody path that recasts the Rawlinses' relationships. Told from multiple points of view in intersecting timelines, the plot quickly gets too busy for its own good, but Johns delivers enough atmosphere and suspense to keep the pages turning. Readers will look forward to the author's next effort.
