Such Pretty Flowers

<b><b>RECOMMENDED BY GILLIAN FLYNN ON THE <i>TODAY</i> SHOW - </b>A lush seductive Southern Gothic that's deliciously queer . . . K. L. Cerra's gift for gorgeous gruesome atmosphere had me spellbound.--Layne Fargo author of <i>They Never Learn</i></b> <p/> <b>A woman investigating her brother's apparent suicide finds herself falling for her prime suspect--his darkly mysterious girlfriend--in this creepy compelling and utterly original (Karen Dionne) thriller.</b> <p/><i>Get it out of me.<br></i><br> It was the last message Holly received from her brother Dane before he was found cleaved open in the lavish Savannah townhouse of his girlfriend Maura. Police ruled his death a suicide sparked by psychosis but Holly can't shake the idea that something else must have happened--something involving another message he sent earlier that night about a game Maura wanted to play. <p/>Determined to discover the truth Holly begins to stalk Maura a magnetic black-eyed florist with a penchant for carnivorous plants. But what begins as an investigation quickly veers into a fixation that lures Holly into the depths of Maura's world: Savannah high society eerie black roses and a whisper of something more sinister. Soon Holly is feeling a dark attraction to the one woman she shouldn't trust. As Holly falls deeper for Maura and her secrets she's left with only one choice: find out what happened to Dane or meet the same fate.