Mortal Memory

The Edgar Award–winning author "builds a family portrait in which violence seems both impossible and inevitable . . . surprising and devastating" (Chicago Tribune).

Steve Farris was nine years old in 1959, the youngest child in a family that was about to be snuffed out. Around four o'clock on an ordinary November afternoon, Steve's father loaded his shotgun. With calm precision he killed his teenaged son and daughter, and then turned the weapon on his wife. For two hours he waited for his...