"Who put Ellen in the blackgum tree?" Decades after trespassing children spotted the desiccated corpse wedged in the treetop, no one knows the answer. Kate Thrush and her former college professor, Dr. Judith Kane, travel to Cinderwich, Tennessee, in hopes that maybe it was their Ellen: Katie's lost aunt, Judith's long-gone lover. But they're not the only ones to have come here looking for closure. The people of Cinderwich, a town hardly more than a skeleton itself, are staunchly resistant to the outsiders' questions about Ellen and her killer. And the deeper the two women dig, the more rot they unearth, the closer they come to exhuming the evil that lies, hungering, at the roots of Cinderwich.
Narrator Traci Odom's use of folksy accents perfectly sets the scene for this horror audiobook. Kate's Aunt Ellen disappeared without a trace decades ago in the midst of completing her college thesis. Ellen's longtime friend, Judith, approaches Kate with evidence that an unsolved murder in rural Cinderwich, Tennessee, might be their Ellen. Reticent townsfolk and strange encounters with the superna
