Audio Book Description:
Jean Sheridan, a college deanand prominent historian, sets out to her hometown to attend the twenty-year reunionof Stonecroft Academy alumni,where she is to be honored along with six other members of her class. There issomething uneasy in the air: one woman in the group about to be feted, AlisonKendall, a beautiful, high-powered Hollywood agent, drowned in her pool during an early-morning swim. Alison is the fifth woman in the class whose lifehas come to a sudden, mysterious end. Adding to Jean`s sense of unease is a taunting, anonymous fax she received, referring to her daughter- a child shehad given up for adoption twenty years ago. At the award dinner, Jean is introduced to Sam Deegan, a detectiveobsessed by the unsolved murderof a young woman who may hold the key to identity of theStonecroft killer. Jean does not suspect that among thedistinguished people she is greeting is The Owl, a murderer nearing the count- down on his mission of vengeance againstthe Stonecroft women who had mocked andhumiliated him, with Jean as his final victim.
