Cold Rain

Life couldn't be better for David Albo, an associate professor of English at a small midwestern university. He lives in an idyllic, out-of-town, plantation-style mansion with a beautiful and intelligent wife and an adoring teenage stepdaughter. As he returns to the university after a long and relaxing sabbatical, there is a full professorship in the offing—and, what's more, he has managed to stay off the booze for two whole years.
Cold Rain makes for an absolute gem of a surprise.  This is good solid, atmospheric writing piled with suspense and tension.

This research benefited from the generous help of many institutions and individuals. The National Endowment for the Humanities provided a valuable summer research stipend (FT-5327405), which was followed by a sabbatical leave from Southern Oregon University during which the manuscript was completed