With an imagination reminiscent of Steven King and a mind for mystery like Michael Connelly, author Steve Huggins has brought us a triumph of suspense in The Murmur. From the moment journalist Fogger Grace becomes entangled in trying to solve the mystery of a baffling series of deaths to the astonishing ending, you will be ensnared in this addictive, mind-bending tale of the depths of human depravity and the grandeur of human virtue. The Murmur is addictive. You won’t want to put it down until you’ve read the very last word.

• Linda Hughes, award-winning author of the Secrets Trilogy.

On the surface, life in the small tourist town of Mosby, Georgia, is just as you would expect. But beneath the magnolias and crepe myrtles lurks a terrible power, one that is compelling people to kill themselves without apparent cause or explanation. Fogger Grace, a writer raised by an irrational, controlling mother, arrives in Mosby to cover the annual reunion of an eccentric family for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Instead, he must watch as the adults slaughter themselves and their children in a mass murder-suicide. Fogger, his new friend Al Amon, and police chief Lauren Klout are forced to challenge the brutality of a soulless murderer who manipulates the passions of his unsuspecting victims. And as Fogger undergoes his transformation from repression to self-reliance, he must fight not just to survive, but also to protect the only woman he has ever loved.