The Albatross

Making amends for a tragic accident, a couple fears their good deed is about to be punished in this suspense novel from the "mistress of day-lit terror" (The New York Times).

In a roadside Santa Clara motel, Esther Gardner wakes up to an intruder lurching toward her. No one blames her husband, Tom, for taking him down with a single blow to the head—least of all the stranger himself, an embarrassed real estate broker from Arcadia, who had drunkenly stumbled into the wrong room.

Three da...