The House on Buzzards Bay

In the latest from CrimeReads editor in chief Murphy (The Stolen Coast), six longtime friends reunite at a Massachusetts beach house, which seems to be haunted. Jim was bequeathed the house shortly after graduating college. He uses it as a lure to keep the friendships intact, going so far as to make part of the property collectively owned. But when Jim, his wife Valentina, and their children arrive to find their house is one of several broken into during the off-season, it is the first sign that this gathering will be different. The friends (which also include Rami, a diplomat who spends most of his time abroad, and married couple Shannon and Maya) begin to experience sinister premonitions about the house and each other. After Bruce, a successful spy novelist who is the last to arrive, gets into an ugly fight with Jim, he disappears the following morning. In his place, unannounced and with seeming familiarity with the house and its guests, enters Camille, a French-speaking maybe-friend of Bruce’s.