The Past is Never Dead

Publisher's blurb:

A woman has disappeared from a small town west of New Orleans. Wardens wouldn’t be called in for something like this, normally. However, she was a member of the aristocracy – of the Jefferson family of One-Horse Hollow – and her disappearance has garnered attention. Following the loss of her husband, the woman has lived alone and become an eccentric recluse. Calling upon her for routine business, the local sheriff went to her house recently and found all of her belongings there–even the animals–but she was missing, perhaps for the better part of a year... The wardens are called in to this little town to investigate and to sift through the remnants of her disturbing house on the hill.