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All families are complicated. But not all families have bodies buried in their backyard. One put there just that week…
When the Rawlins family matriarch unexpectedly passes, all three adult children rush home. What they find is a house bursting with grief, dark memories surfacing around each corner, and multiple bodies buried deep in the woods. The Rawlins want to believe the discovery point to a crime long past.
But one of the graves behind Teague House is fresh–the earth disturbed just that week–and its inhabitant a local woman they all knew.
Is the youngest Rawlins sibling with something to hide somehow involved in her murder? Is his sister experiencing false memories of her late father digging near the graves? And why is the Rawlins aunt in such a rush to leave town after her sister’s funeral?
Enter private detective Maddie Reed, who has her own reasons for being curious about the bodies buried behind Teague House. Maddie sets out to unmask a killer. One she may have been hunting all her life.
“An impressive first novel from Stacy Johns, What Remains of Teague House is a sinister mystery wrapped within layers of secrets harbored by the members of the dysfunctional Rawlins family. A powerful debut, and one that will keep you guessing.”
–Carter Wilson, USA Today bestselling author of
The Father She Went to Find
“A thrilling story of murder, betrayal, and a family home that hides dark secrets. I couldn’t put it down!”
—Stacie Grey, author of She Left
“Who doesn’t love a dark and twisty family saga with literal bodies buried in the backyard? Set against the foreboding Teague House, Johns slowly builds a delicious tapestry of murder, betrayal, and a twist ending that had me guessing until the final pages. A compulsively readable debut.”
—Kali White, author of The Monsters We Make
