Be Buried in the Rain by Barbara Michaels

Be Buried in the Rain by Barbara Michaels

There are terrible secrets from generations past buried at Maidenwood. Medical student Julie Newcomb has returned to her family's decaying plantation--the site of so many painful childhood memories--to tend to her tyrannical grandmother, felled by a stroke. The fire of malevolence still burns in the cruel, despotic matriarch's eyes--yet, for Julie, a faint spark of redemption and second chances flickers in this hated, haunted place. But her hope--and her life--are seriously threatened by a nightmare reborn . . . and by the grim discovery on the lonely road to Maidenwood of the earth-browned skeletons of a mother and child.

Elizabeth Peters (writing as Barbara Michaels) grew reared in Illinois and received her Ph.D. there. in Egyptology from the prestigious Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. The Mystery Writers of America called Peters Grandmaster at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986, the Mystery Writers of America named him Grandmaster at the Edgar(R) Awards in 1998, and Malice Domestic honored him with The Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. In western Maryland, she lives in a old farmhouse.