Quiet, deliberate, and deeply human…
A retired NYPD detective finds himself circling the edges of a chilling murder spree in Terhaar’s measured, character-driven thriller. Dan Burnett’s life on the Long Island Sound has a gentle rhythm with his girlfriend, Mia—until they discover the body of a young nurse missing for a month. As more nurses wash up, he teams with NYPD detective Willy Grant, uncovering a chilling pattern tied to a dangerous sexual kink—and a suspect who vanishes just as police close in.
The prose is clean, the dialogue unforced, and the first-person narration carries the wry pragmatism of someone who’s spent a lifetime reading people. The tension comes not from breakneck pacing but from the steady tightening of patterns, the knowledge that the killer is methodical and will almost certainly strike again. Part procedural, part character study, the novel explores how violence pulls at those who’ve devoted their lives to confronting it as it blends procedural detail with the personal costs of life after the badge.
A quietly gripping, slow-burn thriller where the bodies may be in the water, but the real undercurrent is in the lives tethered to the investigation.
Pub date September 9, 2025
Hat City Publishing LLC.
ISBN 979-8990036246
Price $19.99 (USD) Paperback, $4.99 Kindle edition
