Man, I'm on a roll - just reading all these books in one sitting. 
 Another good one, thanks to NetGalley. 
 However, this one took me a bit longer than usual to read. The whole story was drawn out, kind of dragged around to places where it'd give you a taste of what's to come, only to extend the wait just a little bit longer. But still, very good - very well written. The story is about the death of Laurie's father, who'd been suffering from dementia and had apparently thrown himself out of the window of the belvedere tower of his home. Along with her daughter, Susan, and her husband, Ted, they've come to handle paperwork and to meet with the lawyers about what went into the will her father wrote up before he died. Returning to her childhood home is hard on Laurie; she hadn't really seen her father since her parents divorced when she was around her own daughter's age and on top of that, the death of a childhood friend in the area still haunts her to that day. 
 Suffice it to say, being in the house in incredibly unsettling. There are phantom footsteps when it's just Laurie in the house, doors slamming shut, voices that she shouldn't be hearing, the works. There's even the fact that the little girl next door who's staying with her aunt and uncle for the summer, who has befriended Susan, bears an remarkable resemblance Laurie's friend, Sadie, who died. 
 Even though the scenes felt a bit drawn out (just to me), they all build up to a discovery that rocks Laurie's world and has her seeing things and thinking of her late father in a new light. It doesn't help that between all this, her marriage with Ted is being called into question and she can't seem to just get along too well with her daughter - whose relationship with Ted makes Laurie feel like an outsider. The ending was a little bit anti-climatic, to be honest with you - but it still made for an entertaining read and I'll be happy to report that I did not have spooky moments where I nearly peed myself, or slammed sensitive limbs into hard surfaces due to being alarmed. Yay for me.