The Crow on the Roof

The idyllic river town of Belmont is brought to its knees in this eerie tale of otherworldly phenomena, dark family secrets and murder. Shortly after a missing boy is found dead in a rectory basement, young Geneva Perry claims she spoke with her missing sister, presumed dead, at the same church. With an enthusiastic press promoting her provocative story, hundreds of spiritual zealots descend upon Belmont in hopes of seeing the so-called Angel Evangeline. Days later, Geneva's older sister, Leonora, an aspiring actress, is badly beaten and left to die in an abandoned farmhouse. Soon after, an unpopular professor is discovered strangled in a garden shed. Once again, thriller writer and dilettante sleuth Iris Woolsey steps in to assist Lieutenant Freddy Donovan in solving these macabre and baffling mysteries.