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The Vanishing Season

(2026)
(The first book in the Leah Kurtz Files series)
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A missing girl. A winter storm. A detective haunted by echoes of her past.

When a young Amish woman vanishes from her rural community on a lonely Minnesota road, Detective Leah Kurtz is brought in to consult. What she finds is chillingly familiar—the red scarf, the anonymous calls, the hand-drawn crow feathers.

Someone remembers Leah’s history… and wants her to relive it.

As a blizzard buries the county, Leah races to outthink a predator who studies her every move. But the deeper she digs, the more the line blurs between hunter and hunted—until she realizes the killer isn’t just copying her past.
He’s rewriting it.


The Vanishing Season launches The Leah Kurtz Files—a clean, atmospheric thriller for fans of Karin Slaughter, Colleen Coble, and Lisa Gardner.


Genre: Mystery

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