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Magnitude

(2026)
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One by one

Hollywood’s most vulnerable young women have gone missing from the streets of Los Angeles.

For 13 years

Private Investigator Sawyer Easton Pearce has tried to convince the LAPD that a serial killer is on the loose, targeting Hollywood hopefuls.

Only when a UCLA professor is found murdered in his own home—with horrific clues hidden on his body—do the authorities listen.

But it may be too late for the killer’s latest victim.

Lily Sloane moved to Seattle to escape her traumatic childhood with a malignant stage mom. But when her father, an expert on the San Andreas fault, is found dead with eerie clues left at the murder scene, she must return to Hollywood and confront her dark past.

P.I. Pearce and Lily were both child actors together. Now they must band together to stop a demented killer from terrorizing all of Los Angeles.

And they have no idea what’s coming next.

From the award-winning author of ‘It’s Me Violet’ and "Trace of Evil’ comes a terrifying cat-and-mouse thriller about the depravity and dreams that thrive in Los Angeles, where good must overcome darkness, but a Hollywood ending isn’t guaranteed.

For fans of Riley Sager, Shari Lapena, Jess Lourey, Mary Kubica, Jennifer Hillier, JD Barker, Thomas Harris, Frieda McFadden, Liane Moriarty, Rachel Caine, Josh Malerman, Robert Dugoni, K.L. Slater, Charlie Donlea, AJ Carter, James Caine, Alan Peterson, Dennis Lehane, Michael Donnelly, and Tana French.

For those who liked Se7en, Zodiac, Silence of the Lambs, The Red Dragon, Psycho, Cape Fear and Chinatown.

‘Blanchard's prose is swift and cinematic.’ ― Publisher's Weekly

‘Blanchard may have literary roots, but she proves she can hold her own with the plot-wielding, bestselling big boys.’ ― Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Blanchard is a superb storyteller." ― Mystery & Suspense Magazine


Genre: Mystery

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