A propulsive psychological thriller set inside the world of true crime fandom—perfect for fans of Freida McFadden and Riley Sager. Featuring dual POV narration, a killer hiding in plain sight, and a twist that recontextualizes every page you've already read.
Twelve years ago, three people were murdered at a lake house outside Nashville. One person survived. A man went to prison. The case was closed.Everyone moved on. Everyone except Kelsey Hawkins.
Kelsey Hawkins hosts Presumed, a wrongful conviction podcast with one mission: find the truth before it disappears. When she arrives at Evidence Room—Nashville's premier true crime convention—she has three targets, one anonymous source, and eight months of careful, methodical work pointing toward a case everyone else believes is closed. Travis McStay has been in prison for twelve years for the murders of three people at a lake house outside Nashville. The evidence was clean. The survivor's testimony was devastating. The community has never doubted it.
Kelsey does.
Laurel Vaughn is the keynote speaker, the co-founder of the conference, and the most celebrated survivor in the true crime world. She's warm, funny, and magnetic—the kind of person who makes every room feel safer just by being in it. When Kelsey checks into the room next door, Laurel is the first person to knock with coffee and a smile.
She's also been watching Kelsey for six months.
Over three days, attendees start disappearing. A forensic analyst who flagged the wrong evidence. A journalist who got too close. A true crime author whose leverage just ran out. And Kelsey—running toward the truth the way she always does, never quite fast enough—is about to find out that the most dangerous person at the conference is the one she trusted most.
Evidence Room is a standalone psychological thriller. Click Read Now or Buy Now to fall into a dual-POV, cliffhanger-every-chapter read where the killer is hiding in plain sight and the twist will stop your heart.
Featuring these tropes:
GENRE: Psychological Thriller
TROPES: unreliable narrator, dual POV, villain POV, wrongful conviction, twist ending, woman in peril, red herring, conference setting
TONE: chilling, propulsive, atmospheric dread, gut-punch reveal
HEAT LEVEL: clean/no explicit content
COMPS: Freida McFadden, Riley Sager, Ruth Ware, domestic suspense, gone-girl thriller
Genre: Mystery
Twelve years ago, three people were murdered at a lake house outside Nashville. One person survived. A man went to prison. The case was closed.Everyone moved on. Everyone except Kelsey Hawkins.
Kelsey Hawkins hosts Presumed, a wrongful conviction podcast with one mission: find the truth before it disappears. When she arrives at Evidence Room—Nashville's premier true crime convention—she has three targets, one anonymous source, and eight months of careful, methodical work pointing toward a case everyone else believes is closed. Travis McStay has been in prison for twelve years for the murders of three people at a lake house outside Nashville. The evidence was clean. The survivor's testimony was devastating. The community has never doubted it.
Kelsey does.
Laurel Vaughn is the keynote speaker, the co-founder of the conference, and the most celebrated survivor in the true crime world. She's warm, funny, and magnetic—the kind of person who makes every room feel safer just by being in it. When Kelsey checks into the room next door, Laurel is the first person to knock with coffee and a smile.
She's also been watching Kelsey for six months.
Over three days, attendees start disappearing. A forensic analyst who flagged the wrong evidence. A journalist who got too close. A true crime author whose leverage just ran out. And Kelsey—running toward the truth the way she always does, never quite fast enough—is about to find out that the most dangerous person at the conference is the one she trusted most.
Evidence Room is a standalone psychological thriller. Click Read Now or Buy Now to fall into a dual-POV, cliffhanger-every-chapter read where the killer is hiding in plain sight and the twist will stop your heart.
Featuring these tropes:
- Killer hiding in plain sight
Dual POV — protagonist and killer
True crime convention setting
Wrongful conviction cold case
Shocking twist ending that recontextualizes everything
GENRE: Psychological Thriller
TROPES: unreliable narrator, dual POV, villain POV, wrongful conviction, twist ending, woman in peril, red herring, conference setting
TONE: chilling, propulsive, atmospheric dread, gut-punch reveal
HEAT LEVEL: clean/no explicit content
COMPS: Freida McFadden, Riley Sager, Ruth Ware, domestic suspense, gone-girl thriller
Genre: Mystery