Laura Benedict

You put your key in the lock. The door won’t open. The house should be empty. But there’s a stranger inside. “Outstanding thriller…” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) ★ Read More | Order Now

SUMMER SECRETS...KIDNAPPING AND MURDER. Erin Walsh arrives home to tiny New Belford, Kentucky from college only to clash with her young stepmother, Shelby Rae. When Shelby Rae is kidnapped and a dear friend of the family is murdered, can a wily black cat detective lead Erin to the truth before she becomes a victim herself? Read More | Order Now

Laura's Edgar-nominated short story about love, tragedy, and murder in St. Louis is now available as an ebook. $1.99

(Includes a second bonus story, previously published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine!)

Three women. A cursed house. Generations of lives at stake. The third novel in the acclaimed Bliss House series reveals the secret that started it all.

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It's 2008. Twenty-year-old Nicole works at the Bliss House Inn, and the owners are leaving her there alone overnight, in the middle of a snowstorm.

It shouldn't matter much that Bliss House is haunted—right?

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"Dripping with Southern gothic atmosphere." —Booklist, starred review

In the fall of 1957, Charlotte Bliss's charmed Virginia life takes a brutal, tragic turn when one of her young children dies in Bliss House, a house in which nothing is as it seems. The dead of Bliss House have answers to the questions tormenting Charlotte, but can the dead be trusted? Read More | Order Now

Laura's Notes From the Handbasket Blog

Are you ready to self-publish? There are too many sites to count that will tell you how to do it. I want to be straight with you about the risks–emotional and practical–of getting into self-publishing.