Blacker Than Midnight

The killer is dead. His last words died with him.
But someone just whispered them to his only surviving victim.

Twelve years ago, five teenage girls went to Deadwater Lake for one last weekend together after their high school graduation. By sunrise, four were gone. Geneva Bell was the only one who lived. Now someone keeps leaving her messages, repeating words the killer whispered as she thought her life was ending—words she swears she never told a soul.

With nowhere else to turn and no faith in the police, Geneva brings the messages to private investigator Mercy Gale. The moment Mercy hears the message, she knows she can’t let it go.

With the help of her father—a brilliant former defense attorney whose formidable mind is beginning to betray him—Mercy starts pulling apart a case everyone else considers closed. But whatever happened at Deadwater Lake didn’t end with four dead girls—or with the execution of their killer.

And someone will do anything to make sure Mercy never learns the truth.

Blacker Than Midnight is the second gripping installment in the Mercy Gale Mystery Thriller Series, packed with chilling secrets, shocking twists, and a relentless private investigator determined to uncover the truth.

Audiobook coming in December.