He knew things no stranger should know.
Dr. Dana Rowe has spent nineteen years inside the minds of killers. She's interviewed murderers, dissected their pathologies, written the books other clinicians study. She is, by every measure, very good at this.
Then she meets Eli Marsh.
Convicted of poisoning four colleagues over eighteen months, Eli is calm, articulate, and unsettlingly attentive — the kind of patient who answers every question and somehow ends up asking his own. In their second session, he mentions the name of Dana's childhood dog. A name she's never written down. A name she's never spoken aloud to anyone.
When she asks how he knows, he tells her something impossible.
You told me.
As Dana digs deeper into Eli's case, she uncovers a friendship that predates the murders, a notebook that was never supposed to surface, and a financial trail that someone has spent years trying to bury. But the more she learns about Eli — and about the man who arranged this evaluation, and asked for her by name — the more she begins to notice the gaps. A street name that isn't hers. An eye color that changes between sessions. Seventeen minutes of recorded footage with no sound at all.
Dana Rowe is the best in her field at spotting what doesn't fit.
She's about to discover the thing that doesn't fit is her.
The first book in The Interview Room series — a psychological thriller for readers of The Silent Patient, None of This Is True, and anyone who's ever wondered whether the person telling the story is the one you should be watching.
Genre: Mystery
Dr. Dana Rowe has spent nineteen years inside the minds of killers. She's interviewed murderers, dissected their pathologies, written the books other clinicians study. She is, by every measure, very good at this.
Then she meets Eli Marsh.
Convicted of poisoning four colleagues over eighteen months, Eli is calm, articulate, and unsettlingly attentive — the kind of patient who answers every question and somehow ends up asking his own. In their second session, he mentions the name of Dana's childhood dog. A name she's never written down. A name she's never spoken aloud to anyone.
When she asks how he knows, he tells her something impossible.
You told me.
As Dana digs deeper into Eli's case, she uncovers a friendship that predates the murders, a notebook that was never supposed to surface, and a financial trail that someone has spent years trying to bury. But the more she learns about Eli — and about the man who arranged this evaluation, and asked for her by name — the more she begins to notice the gaps. A street name that isn't hers. An eye color that changes between sessions. Seventeen minutes of recorded footage with no sound at all.
Dana Rowe is the best in her field at spotting what doesn't fit.
She's about to discover the thing that doesn't fit is her.
The first book in The Interview Room series — a psychological thriller for readers of The Silent Patient, None of This Is True, and anyone who's ever wondered whether the person telling the story is the one you should be watching.
Genre: Mystery
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