From the Edgar Award-winning author of They Buried a Man comes a novel of strangling horror! "As a thriller or serious novel, powerful and rewarding." -- Anthony Boucher, New York Times Mildred B. Davis is an American novelist whose books generally fall into the suspense/mystery genre. Katherine (Davis) Roome, her daughter, and a published author herself, helped Mildred break a 30-year publishing silence by working with her to turn some previously unpublished manuscripts into the Murder in Maine series.