This novel, or the combined series of the Caskey Family Sagas, is in my opinion McDowell's best work, a multigenerational family saga that expands far beyond the limitations of being categorized into the Horror genre. Throughout generations even, McDowell is at the top of his game writing about this family with its rich men and domineering women. In McDowell's second novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon, a murdered woman's corpse is dispatched into a river, but her spirit roams the land, and in the evening hours it seeks revenge on her killer even as he plots the demise of her surviving relatives. And every once in a while there's a scene of gruesome supernatural horror to remind you that this ain't Faulkner or Flannery O'Connor.

However, that was a nice bridge to telling of family expectations and the pressure put onto the respective next generation. To retain the money and get away with the crime, she must navigate—and possibly eliminate—his three suspicious children.I've listened to a lot of audios over the last few years, and that's never happened to me-at least not in a book with as many characters as Blackwater. When the citizens of Pine Cone, Alabama, begin to die in shocking and grisly ways, Sarah Howell suspects a strange piece of jewelry is the link between the deaths, and that her hateful, vindictive mother-in-law Jo is behind it all. That was the great misconception about men: because they dealt with money, because they could hire someone on and later fire him, because they alone filled state assemblies and were elected congressional representatives, everyone thought they had power.

McDowell's Katie, meanwhile, concerns a clairvoyant serial killer whose powers of perception enable her to evade her trackers. Elinor loves her family, she does very well by them, and you really want to like her, except that the some of the acts she commits are less justifiable than others. Hardcover, SIGNED, Limited edition boxed set, Six volumes, Fine in Fine dust jackets and Fine slipcase, Cover artwork by: Patrick Loehr / Paul Wedlake This edition limited to 250 numbered sets signed by Poppy Z. Men had failed to study their own minds sufficiently, and because of this failure they were at the mercy of fleeting passions; men, much more than women, were moved by petty jealousies and the desire for petty revenges.The only thing really "horror" about this story was how these people swapped babies around because they couldn't live in a house without one. I felt like I was immersed in this saga; felt like I was living in the small town of Perdido, and seeing life through the eyes of the Caskeys and the Sapps. But when I started sympathizing with and appreciating the concept, that's where I really started getting creeped out. Cool-headed bartender Daniel Valentine and his plucky, reckless best friend Clarisse Lovelace find themselves unwittingly involved in hunting the killer. Regardless of all the schemes and machinations, I usually couldn't wait to see new family members and find out how they would get along, what they would end up doing, what was to become of the Caskeys.