All they wanted was to form a simple club: meet once a week and tell a terrifying tale. At the end of the five weeks, the best tale won a prize. Only for these five teens, where they chose to spin their horrifying yarns was a real mistake. The old Clutter house, where 15 years before, a family was murdered in their beds, had stood empty ever since. It seemed like the perfect place for telling a spooky story. But it wasn’t really abandoned…not really. And what waited inside was a real dead end.

When it comes to crime, the murder of a child is one of the worst. Just knowing about it can be traumatic. That's what one woman discovers when she picks up a book of crime scene photographs culled from the files of a real New York City detective. She's haunted by the harsh black and white photo of a little girl, strangled and left for dead on the floor in a womens' restroom. The story is intercut with her distress at not being able to stop thinking and wondering about the crime, while the other part takes the reader back to a hot day in the early 1960s and shows just what could drive a mother to murder her only child. A taut story with a shocking ending.