Neighbor Liar Killer

The narrator is on the phone with her sister when the line carries the sound of her murder. The scene is staged to look like a burglary that went wrong, but the details point to someone the victim knew, someone with access to her home.

The sister leaves behind three daughters. The narrator has also lost the one person who always stood by her, and she sets out to find the killer herself.

The murder happened in an exclusive neighborhood, and the narrator is sure the culprit lives there. The police follow their own leads while she follows hers. Unlike the detectives, she is not bound by procedure, so she can go places and ask questions they cannot.

That freedom has a cost. The closer she gets to a name, the more danger builds around her and the people near her. A first-person romantic suspense narrative, it turns on whom she can trust among the neighbors, and whether she works it out before the killer reaches her.