Five students. Five suicides. Every case closed in under three days.
True crime podcaster Vivian Parcell has made a career of walking into other people's darkness. But when she opens her own notebook and finds a stranger's name written in the margin, in handwriting that isn't hers, she knows the darkness has already walked into her home.
The name belongs to Beckett Forrester, a charming lawyer with a sealed past who knows far too much about Vivian: her coffee order, her sources, even the tattoo on her wrist.
He offers to help investigate the deaths at Aldermoor College. But every lead he gives her points to Victor Halden, the brilliant forensic scientist who ruled all five deaths suicides and whose hands tremble at the mention of one girl's name.
Only one man on campus seems to want to protect her: Cormac Laird, the weathered former homicide detective who closed every case.
As the evidence mounts and a strange constellation appears carved at each death scene, Vivian must decide who is helping her, who is steering her, and who has been watching her all along.
Because someone at Aldermoor has a confession to make. And they've waited thirty-one years to make it.
Genre: Mystery
True crime podcaster Vivian Parcell has made a career of walking into other people's darkness. But when she opens her own notebook and finds a stranger's name written in the margin, in handwriting that isn't hers, she knows the darkness has already walked into her home.
The name belongs to Beckett Forrester, a charming lawyer with a sealed past who knows far too much about Vivian: her coffee order, her sources, even the tattoo on her wrist.
He offers to help investigate the deaths at Aldermoor College. But every lead he gives her points to Victor Halden, the brilliant forensic scientist who ruled all five deaths suicides and whose hands tremble at the mention of one girl's name.
Only one man on campus seems to want to protect her: Cormac Laird, the weathered former homicide detective who closed every case.
As the evidence mounts and a strange constellation appears carved at each death scene, Vivian must decide who is helping her, who is steering her, and who has been watching her all along.
Because someone at Aldermoor has a confession to make. And they've waited thirty-one years to make it.
Genre: Mystery