Terror in the Town — Edward S. Aarons

THERE WAS GOSSIP IN EASTERLY

And most of it was a pack of malicious lies. As soon as Verity Farland, an attractive young bride, stepped foot in the tiny fishing village, she got an earful!

But the brutal strangulation of a pair of old spinsters was cold fact. So were the other strange occurrences. And Verity's terror grew as the evidence pointed more and more to one man: her husband!

Then she learned that she was marked as the next victim…

Takes place in Massachusetts