Now Entering The Chat
(2026)(The second book in the Steel City Mystery series)
A novel by L L Kirchner
From bestselling author L.L. Kirchner comes a psychological suspense novel about a woman who’s hired to bury a university scandal—and uncovers something far worse.
She was hired to protect him. She stayed to bury the real villain.
Pittsburgh, 1996.
Jessica Greer survived a media scandal. Now she''s turning what she learned into a crisis communications business.
When star professor Richard Holiday is accused of sexually assaulting a freshman, the university hires Jessica to stop the story before it destroys their multimillion-dollar fundraising campaign. Her best friend and business partner, Sofia, wants no part of it. Jessica takes the job anyway.
She soon proves that when it comes to making ugly stories disappear, she is good.
Maybe too good.
When evidence appears to clear Richard, the university declares victory. And the student who accused him is branded a liar. Then she dies.
Now Jessica is determined to tear apart the story she helped sell.
Anonymous Pittsburgh chat rooms buzz with gossip. A television reporter is digging for the story of her career. And Jessica begins to suspect that absolving Richard didn’t fix the problem, only buried the part that mattered.
Because clearing one man doesn’t mean you found the villain.
Now Entering the Chat is the second book in the Steel City Mysteries, a series of standalone psychological suspense novels set in 1990s Pittsburgh.
Genre: Mystery
She was hired to protect him. She stayed to bury the real villain.
Pittsburgh, 1996.
Jessica Greer survived a media scandal. Now she''s turning what she learned into a crisis communications business.
When star professor Richard Holiday is accused of sexually assaulting a freshman, the university hires Jessica to stop the story before it destroys their multimillion-dollar fundraising campaign. Her best friend and business partner, Sofia, wants no part of it. Jessica takes the job anyway.
She soon proves that when it comes to making ugly stories disappear, she is good.
Maybe too good.
When evidence appears to clear Richard, the university declares victory. And the student who accused him is branded a liar. Then she dies.
Now Jessica is determined to tear apart the story she helped sell.
Anonymous Pittsburgh chat rooms buzz with gossip. A television reporter is digging for the story of her career. And Jessica begins to suspect that absolving Richard didn’t fix the problem, only buried the part that mattered.
Because clearing one man doesn’t mean you found the villain.
Now Entering the Chat is the second book in the Steel City Mysteries, a series of standalone psychological suspense novels set in 1990s Pittsburgh.
Genre: Mystery