By the Time You Read This

A single line arrives in the post: by the time you read this, I'll be dead. Days later the sender is found dead in a locked cell, and FBI forensic linguist Raisa Susanto is dragged back into the orbit of a case she believed she had left behind for good.

What surrounds it now is a following: true-crime obsessives who treat the old killings as scripture and the survivors as characters. When a new body turns up staged exactly as the originals were, Raisa and FBI forensic psychologist Callum Kilkenny are working two questions at once. Who killed the woman in the cell, and which of the devotees has decided to take up her work.

By the Time You Read This is the third book in Brianna Labuskes's Raisa Susanto series. It carries the background of the earlier books forward and can be read on its own.