The Lies You Wrote

Raisa Susanto reads people through their sentences. As a forensic linguist for the FBI, she can put a name to an anonymous letter by the rhythm of its clauses, and she is one of the few people who can say she helped catch the Alphabet Man.

When new letters surface bearing the same signature, the case she thought was closed reopens. The writing is right. The man convicted of those murders is still in prison. And the closer Raisa looks at the language, the more it points back toward the family she spent her adult life keeping at arm's length.

The Lies You Wrote is the first book in Brianna Labuskes's Raisa Susanto series, a procedural thriller built on the idea that no one can lie in their own voice for very long.