Crime/Mystery, possible psychic element

Fiction

Murder Mystery I think

From what I remember, it starts out with a woman detective going to a crime scene. I think a family of three was dead, one of the siblings might have been missing or alive and at the scene.

I think the detective was new in town.

I remember there being an old woman who knew everything that was going on in town, and I think the title had to do with that

I think the author had a name like Nora Roberts, but it definitely wasn't her.

I read this book 8-10 years ago. I think it was probably written in the '80s or '90s.

The book was a thick paperback.

if it's not Survivor in Death by JD Robb, then I've no more ideas

Touchstone Survivor in Death.

>1 mykneehighsocks: (JD Robb is Nora Roberts' pseudonym for the In Death series, which might be why you thought of her, mykneehighsocks)