Pittsburgh, 1995. Jessica Greer is living the twenty-something dream, corporate hack by day, alt-weekly theater critic by night. Then her column goes to her biggest rival, and that rival goes to the hospital with ricin poisoning. By the time she walks into the City News offices to get ahead of the story, the FBI is already there waiting.
She knows how this looks. She’s also sure she didn't do it. Mostly.
The evidence is circumstantial. The motive is textbook. But there's an empty Duncan Hines box in Jessica's trash she absolutely cannot explain — because she doesn't remember making brownies.
But the harder Jessica fights to control the narrative, the worse it gets: the FBI is building a case, press has dubbed her the Mail Murderess, and the psychiatric history she's managed for years is making her question her own alibi. Somewhere in Pittsburgh's gritty arts scene, the real killer is still running loose. And everyone — the FBI, the press, her own employer — is watching the wrong person.
Steel City Critic is a sharp, fast-moving psychological suspense for readers who like their heroines outgunned, overmatched, and still thinking three moves ahead. For fans of Gone Girl and Sharp Objects who want their protagonist to fight back.
Genre: Mystery
She knows how this looks. She’s also sure she didn't do it. Mostly.
The evidence is circumstantial. The motive is textbook. But there's an empty Duncan Hines box in Jessica's trash she absolutely cannot explain — because she doesn't remember making brownies.
But the harder Jessica fights to control the narrative, the worse it gets: the FBI is building a case, press has dubbed her the Mail Murderess, and the psychiatric history she's managed for years is making her question her own alibi. Somewhere in Pittsburgh's gritty arts scene, the real killer is still running loose. And everyone — the FBI, the press, her own employer — is watching the wrong person.
Steel City Critic is a sharp, fast-moving psychological suspense for readers who like their heroines outgunned, overmatched, and still thinking three moves ahead. For fans of Gone Girl and Sharp Objects who want their protagonist to fight back.
Genre: Mystery