First published 2026
Seven mystery writers arrive at a converted monastery deep in the mountains for a prestigious writing conference. The setting feels perfect for the kind of stories they craft. Then an uninvited guest appears: a disgraced literary agent accused of stealing from his biggest client. Everyone carries secrets that make them potential suspects when the first body appears. The writers turn against each other, exposing hidden truths about cancelled manuscripts, missing royalties worth two million dollars, and a fan whose obsession runs deeper than anyone suspected. A landslide traps them all at the monastery as more deaths follow. Each writer knows exactly how to craft the perfect murder, but now they must figure out which of them has turned fiction into deadly reality.
Genres: fiction, mystery, contemporary, adult-fiction, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, fast-paced, suspenseful, tension-filled
Tropes: locked-room-mystery, secrets-revealed, unreliable-suspects, whodunit
Setting: monastery, mountains
Period: 21st-century
560 pages · Hardcover · Bantam
Content warnings: death, murder