Come Home to Death — Marilyn Levinson

A master of the mystery and suspense genre.—Midwest Book Review Erica Parker has barely been a bride nine months when two thugs show up at her apartment while her husband is away on one of his infamous business trips, claiming he owes their boss a large gambling debt. Frightened for her life, and without any other options, she heads for her childhood Long Island home she escaped three years ago. And swore never to return. The aunts who raised her are as interfering and controlling as ever, but soon as the family attorney advances the rest of her trust from her parents' life insurance, she can return to normalcy. Except he refuses, instead spouting nonsense about how, if she waits, she will soon inherit millions. On her twenty-fifth birthday. Problem is, someone doesn't want her to live that long. Her aunts are harboring secrets, people are turning up dead, her husband is nowhere to be found, and someone's trying to kill her. It appears you can go home again, but sometimes, you shouldn't.