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A Note for the Missing
(2026)(The third book in the Telegraph Hill Mystery series)
A novel by Lila Blake
A poet lost to the water. A sister ready to talk. A neighborhood that has believed the wrong story.
Vivian Salvatore has begun to enjoy spring on Telegraph Hill: coffee at the corner café, familiar faces on her morning walks, and a little distance from the deaths that unsettled her neighborhood.
Then a handwritten invitation arrives beneath her door.
Esther Vogel wants someone to listen. Her sister Ruth, a young North Beach poet, drowned at Aquatic Park decades ago. Ever since, a celebrated writer has kept Ruth’s memory alive through an annual reading, a literary foundation, and a story of devotion that has moved generations of admirers.
Esther has sat in the front row and said nothing.
Now a true-crime podcaster is asking questions, and she is finally ready to tell Vivian what she knows.
Before she can finish, Esther is found dead in the same waters that claimed her sister.
A dry handbag on the seawall. A closed window in an empty apartment. Old letters that do not agree with the story everyone remembers. Vivian has spent too many years listening carefully to accept an explanation simply because it sounds convincing.
But questioning Esther’s death means questioning people her friends have trusted for decades. Among the cafés, poetry rooms, and private archives of North Beach, Vivian must uncover what Esther meant to tell her, and who could not afford to let her speak.
A Note for the Missing is an atmospheric, fair-play San Francisco mystery for readers who like their cozies a little darker, their pace unhurried, and their secrets tangled in the lives of people they come to care about. The third Telegraph Hill Mystery features a sharp-eyed midlife sleuth, the warmth of enduring friendships, and a literary legacy under suspicion in the bookshops, neighborhood cafés, and fog-softened waterfront of North Beach.
Genre: Mystery
Vivian Salvatore has begun to enjoy spring on Telegraph Hill: coffee at the corner café, familiar faces on her morning walks, and a little distance from the deaths that unsettled her neighborhood.
Then a handwritten invitation arrives beneath her door.
Esther Vogel wants someone to listen. Her sister Ruth, a young North Beach poet, drowned at Aquatic Park decades ago. Ever since, a celebrated writer has kept Ruth’s memory alive through an annual reading, a literary foundation, and a story of devotion that has moved generations of admirers.
Esther has sat in the front row and said nothing.
Now a true-crime podcaster is asking questions, and she is finally ready to tell Vivian what she knows.
Before she can finish, Esther is found dead in the same waters that claimed her sister.
A dry handbag on the seawall. A closed window in an empty apartment. Old letters that do not agree with the story everyone remembers. Vivian has spent too many years listening carefully to accept an explanation simply because it sounds convincing.
But questioning Esther’s death means questioning people her friends have trusted for decades. Among the cafés, poetry rooms, and private archives of North Beach, Vivian must uncover what Esther meant to tell her, and who could not afford to let her speak.
A Note for the Missing is an atmospheric, fair-play San Francisco mystery for readers who like their cozies a little darker, their pace unhurried, and their secrets tangled in the lives of people they come to care about. The third Telegraph Hill Mystery features a sharp-eyed midlife sleuth, the warmth of enduring friendships, and a literary legacy under suspicion in the bookshops, neighborhood cafés, and fog-softened waterfront of North Beach.
Genre: Mystery
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