Horror House Stories: Sweet Old Lady's Deadly Secret: A Killer in the Garden - A Dark Psychological Horror Novel of Hidden Evil, Buried Secrets and Small-Town Terror

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Meadowbrook is the safest town in the county. The crime rate is almost zero. The streets are quiet, the gardens bloom, and nothing bad ever seems to happen. Everybody knows everybody, and everybody loves Eleanor Rosewood - the eighty-nine-year-old grandmother who plays the piano at church on Sundays, stands at the school crosswalk every morning, and bakes the best pies anyone has ever tasted.Eleanor has lived in Meadowbrook her whole life. She raised her grandson Daniel after his parents died. She tends the most beautiful garden on Elm Street - roses so magnificent they've won the town prize for thirty-seven consecutive years. She is, by every measure the town can apply, a saint.She has also killed ninety-one people and buried them in her garden.For sixty-seven years, Eleanor Rosewood has been quietly removing the people who threaten her town - the predators, the grifters, the drifters who arrive with violence in their hearts and prey on the vulnerable. A cup of tea. A sedative. A knife. A grave beneath the roses. Nobody suspects. Nobody questions why Meadowbrook is so impossibly safe, or why the soil in Eleanor's garden is so extraordinarily rich, or why certain visitors who arrive in town never seem to leave again.Then, on a Sunday in October, something goes wrong. A body that should have stayed hidden leaves a trail of blood across the street - a trail that leads straight to Eleanor's front door. And the only person in Meadowbrook trained to follow a trail of blood is Sheriff Daniel Jones. Her grandson.Now Daniel must face the most devastating investigation of his career: the woman who raised him, the woman he loves more than anyone in the world, the woman who taught him everything he believes about right and wrong - is the most prolific serial killer the county has ever known. And the truth she's been hiding for sixty-seven years will destroy not just her, but every certainty the town has ever held about itself.Sweet Old Lady's Deadly Secret is a dark, atmospheric, psychologically chilling horror novel about a beloved grandmother with blood on her hands, a garden full of terrible secrets, and a grandson who must choose between the woman he loves and the truth he swore to serve. A slow-burning tale of hidden evil, moral complexity and small-town horror for readers who love their villains charming, their mysteries disturbing, and their endings impossible to forget.Book Five in the Horror House Stories series. Each book is a standalone horror novel. Read more