The Secret Dead
(2027)(The fifth book in the Briar Calloway FBI Mystery series)
A novel by Georgia Wagner
Briar Calloway’s best friend has been murdered. There’s just one problem—the body isn’t hers.
A woman is found laid out beneath flickering candles in an abandoned vault at Washington’s Congressional Cemetery. She has Taz O’Malley’s hair. Her tattoos. Her lip ring. Her driver''s license.
Even her face.
But FBI Agent Briar Calloway knows Taz better than anyone alive—and the killer made mistakes.
The dead woman is an elaborate copy.
Which means the real Taz is missing.
Inside Taz’s apartment, Briar finds a pool of blood and evidence that someone took her alive. Then the investigation uncovers something even stranger: another woman with the same impossible restraint wounds. A forgotten murder. A network of watchers obsessed with Briar’s infamous past. And a mysterious two-hour gap in the prison records of Adrian Calloway—Briar’s serial-killer ex-husband.
Someone has spent years preparing this.
Someone knows Briar intimately.
And as the bodies, clues, and carefully staged performances begin closing around her, Briar realizes this killer doesn’t simply want Taz dead.
They want Briar to watch.
And somewhere in the dark, her best friend may still be alive.
Genre: Mystery
A woman is found laid out beneath flickering candles in an abandoned vault at Washington’s Congressional Cemetery. She has Taz O’Malley’s hair. Her tattoos. Her lip ring. Her driver''s license.
Even her face.
But FBI Agent Briar Calloway knows Taz better than anyone alive—and the killer made mistakes.
The dead woman is an elaborate copy.
Which means the real Taz is missing.
Inside Taz’s apartment, Briar finds a pool of blood and evidence that someone took her alive. Then the investigation uncovers something even stranger: another woman with the same impossible restraint wounds. A forgotten murder. A network of watchers obsessed with Briar’s infamous past. And a mysterious two-hour gap in the prison records of Adrian Calloway—Briar’s serial-killer ex-husband.
Someone has spent years preparing this.
Someone knows Briar intimately.
And as the bodies, clues, and carefully staged performances begin closing around her, Briar realizes this killer doesn’t simply want Taz dead.
They want Briar to watch.
And somewhere in the dark, her best friend may still be alive.
Genre: Mystery