What she heard ... Crime is escalating on quiet, suburban Stoneridge Drive. It began with an apparent suicide, followed by a rash of burglaries. Then, on the night of a Neighborhood Watch meeting, shots ring out. Or have they? Edith Baxter knows what she heard, but after twenty-five years, she's leaving Stoneridge Drive. She's gifted her home to her newlywed grandson, who just happens to be a police officer. She convinces him to look into what she heard. At first, Tim Dewitt's unofficial investigation doesn't yield much. Possibly a young college student, Lisa Collins, has disappeared. She was overheard arguing with someone. No body has turned up, however. Tim's left wondering how Lisa could afford a house. But when a neighbor with a grudge against Lisa turns up dead, Tim knows what his grandmother heard was murder.