The Last Confession

A dying novelist hides a murder confession inside his bestselling serial—and every chapter matches an unsolved disappearance down to details no one should know. Detective Rachel Dunmore is pulled into a labyrinth of literary misdirection when she discovers the fiction mirrors the cold case of editor Diana Merrick, who vanished fifteen years ago near a remote lake house. Someone powerful wants the story silenced permanently, and the body count is climbing toward a final chapter Rachel may not survive.