the haunting of maddy clare by simone st james

After a chance encounter at the doctor’s office where Shea works, Beth agrees to sit down for an interview at her eerie house near the sea, where something otherworldly and terrifying roams the dark, empty halls. The media pounced on her, dubbing her the Lady Killer, and she’s been a recluse ever since.

It didn’t help that Beth was young, beautiful, wealthy, and totally unwilling to play nice with the press. An eyewitness claimed to see Beth leaving the scene of one of the shootings, a cryptic note (handwriting analysis inconclusive) was found nearby, and, worst of all, the same weapon used to shoot the two men had also been used to kill Beth’s father in an attempted burglary a few years earlier. The evidence is circumstantial but damning. Though she proclaimed her innocence from the start and was later acquitted, most people in Claire Lake have always believed Beth got away with murder. In 1977, 23-year-old Beth Greer was accused of murdering two strange men. One local case in particular haunts her: the Lady Killer murders. Twenty-nine-year-old Shea Collins, recently divorced, is a medical receptionist in Claire Lake, Oregon, by day and runs a popular blog called Book of Cold Cases at night. James’ latest supernatural thriller, an up-and-coming true-crime blogger is obsessed with solving a series of decades-old murders that may or may not have been committed by a cold, wealthy heiress living in a gothic cliffside mansion.

The haunting of maddy clare by simone st james