A Very Proper Death

"I can see you in your nightgown," the caller said pleasantly, "and the floral pattern of your sheets. You are Matthew's mother, and this call is about Matthew's death."

In one dark moment after midnight, Mantis carefully constructed new life collapsed. Only four people even knew that she had a son. Only two might remember the color of her sheets. Who is spying on her most private life?

It's a relief to learn the next day that a rival Boston real estate film may be using intimidation to cut in on her own firm's business. Marra wants to -believe that explanation of the calls. Still, she has the uneasy feeling that there's something more happening, something frightening. And she begins to distrust everyone and everything, including her ex-lover, her therapist, and the past as she remembers it....