THE MATRIARCH

A Pasture. A Fig Tree. ,An Earthquake&hellip,and Murders. Returning after a recent earthquake to the small town and the southern California ranch on which he grew up, Cass Murphy figures it will be a two-week sojourn at most, and then he&rsquo,ll move on. But as wives and daughters begin to savagely murder husbands and fathers for no apparent reason&mdash,Cass gets caught up in figuring out why._,