The Worst Thing
When Kellah Mace’s parents are killed in an accident—when Kellah is fifteen years old—she overhears someone say, “She’ll go through life knowing the worst thing has already happened.” Kellah, numb from loss and grief, takes these words to mean she need fear nothing. Only one thing can hurt her again: the loss of someone else she loves.
The Worst Thing turns the commonplace objects from young women’s lives— selfies, cellphones, Google maps, scissors, glossy magazines, vintage fashion, and ponytails— into elements of suspense.
Genre: Suspense, mystery, thriller
Time of Death: The True Tale of a Quest for Justice in 1960’s Chapel Hill
An account of a suspenseful true crime in Chapel Hill, NC, and the ways justice is denied. The death of Lucille Rinaldi and the accusations brought against her husband, Frank, became the seed-thoughts in this novel.
Genre: True crime, suspense, mystery
Until Proven: A Mystery in 2 Parts
Two young women are murdered in their homes, forty years apart. Their deaths have the it-can't-happen-here horror that tears into the heart of a community, in this case, the small Southern town of Piedmont, North Carolina
The two families aggrieved by the first murder suffer again with second--and find that four decades are not enough for healing. When the old scars are torn off by the second murder, the pain of each is magnified.
Until Proven is a mystery filled with suspense, a family saga, and an examination of how a community changes--or doesn't.
Genre: Mystery, suspense, family drama
