TWIST

NOBODY SAW IT COMING!

Penelope Highsmith is the most celebrated mystery writer of her generation — known for plots no one can predict and twists no one sees coming. So when she announces her early retirement, the world is shocked.

But Penelope has one final story to tell.

Before she steps away, she returns to Willow's Bane — the small town she fled after high school — to present her most personal work yet: a true crime retrospective on the unsolved murders of her own classmates. It's the book the residents of Willow's Bane never wanted published.

On the morning of the book's release, Penelope is found dead in her hotel room. An empty bottle of antidepressants in her hand. The case looks closed before it even opens.

Her estranged daughter Parker doesn't believe it for a second.

Parker knows her mother — the dark secrets, the sharp mind, the iron will. Penelope Highsmith did not take her own life. The truth is buried somewhere inside the book no one wanted her to write, and finding it means Parker must do what her mother always did best.

Uncover the twist nobody saw coming.

Perfect for fans of cozy mysteries, small town thrillers, and stories where the mystery writer becomes the mystery.