ITW THRILLER AWARD NOMINEETHE HOUSE OF DEATHThe newspapers called it Casa de la Muerta, a grisly house of horrors in the Mexican desert where five Catholic nuns were brutally murdered. Reporter Nick Vargas knows a good story when he sees one, and hopes this is the key to revitalizing his scandalized career. But when he arrives at the scene, Nick soon learns there may have been a sixth victim: an American woman whose body has disappeared.THE SHADOW OF EVILDead set on tracking the missing dead woman, Nick soon finds himself knee-deep in a sinister world of crime, corruption, and dark superstition. And he comes very close to disappearing himself. Permanently.