Total Eclipse — Liz Rigbey

From its opening scene on a Northern California mountaintop to a shattering climax unlike anything yet experienced in suspense fiction, TOTAL ECLIPSE marks the debut of a master. Liz Rigbey has created a superb novel of passion, deception, and illusion.

Julia Fox is the essence of the seductive woman, a graceful and enigmatic beauty; Lomax is her lover, an astronomer by profession, drawn to her loneliness and determined to clear her of a double murder charge. Gail is Julia's stepdaughter, a troubled young woman found shot to death with her father; the murdered Lewis Fox is Julia's husband, an eminent attorney whose private pleasures stand in shocking relief against his public facade.

Searching for the truth, Lomax uncovers a fascinating but terrifying web of cruelty, deceit, and desire. Julia's trial brings to light dramatic new witnesses, riveting the peaceful California mountain community. It ends with an unexpected verdict. But the most shocking discovery is yet to come....

TOTAL ECLIPSE draws us into a world so richly created that we relish each moment, yet so redolent of evil that it astounds our imaginations.