Baggage, by S.G. Redling, is an edge-of-the-seat thriller about a young woman haunted by her violent past. Anna Ray works in the student advocacy office of a small liberal arts college in Western Virginia. Her mother incessantly sends her letters from prison, where she is incarcerated for the murder of Anna’s father. A year ago, Anna’s husband committed suicide. When a professor who has been courting Anna is murdered in a particularly gruesome way on anniversary of her husband’s and father’s deaths, the reader and Anna are both left to wonder who has come back for vengeance, and why. Is Anna herself to blame? Her controlling but supportive cousin? Redoing had me until the end, when the resolution veered away from a deeper exploration of character, toward horror-film shock value. I’ll be interested to see what Redling writes next.