The only thing left of Rose Lavelle was a pink shoe with a drop of blood on it. Bedminster, NJ detective Lou Bentley had always suspected her husband, Frank, but what was the motive?
Then, Bentley is called to the Lavelle place by an angry neighbor. Frank Lavelle has developed a bizaare obsession with a tangle of weeds growing from a messy flowerbed next to the house. The nasty weeds are unlike any Bentley has ever seen, and nothing Lavelle does seems to keep them from growing back faster, bigger . . . and deadlier.
Spencer Seidel lives and works in suburban New Jersey but has also called Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine home. He is an honors graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University and attended the Berklee College of Music to study guitar, which he has been playing for over 25 years. His love of reading and books began as a child after discovering Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Later, he was drawn to darker work by authors such as Stephen King, Peter Straub, and Jack Ketchum, who continue to influence his dark novels and short stories.