Exercise in Terror

This taut thriller from the Edgar Award–winning author of When the Dark Man Calls "builds with great tension to a shocking conclusion" (Chicago Tribune).

On a hot summer afternoon, Maureen sits with her two children in the family car, anxiously waiting for her husband David. There are two men lurking nearby—a couple of drunks who followed them here from the supermarket—and they make Maureen nervous. As David is walking back to the car, the drunks take a baseball bat to his skull. Maureen ...