First published 2025
Cyra Griffin's younger sister is dead, killed by a serial killer, and the police investigation is already going cold. Cyra is not willing to wait. She gets hold of insider information and does something most people would call insane: she walks into a support group for serial killers and pretends to belong there. Her goal is simple. Find the person who took her sister. Earn the group's trust, identify the killer, get justice. Earning that trust is not simple. The men in the group are dangerous, and convincing them she is one of them demands real costs. Cyra pays them. But the killers themselves are not the only threat standing between her and the answer she needs. The deeper she goes into this world, the more she has to act like the thing she is hunting, and the harder it gets to find her way back to herself. This debut novel from Saratoga Schaefer is queer, feminist, and darkly funny. It asks how far a grieving woman will go, and what she might lose of herself along the way.
Genres: mystery, crime, adult-fiction, thriller, psychological-thriller, dark
Vibes: dark, darkly-funny, gritty, psychological, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, infiltration, revenge-driven, unreliable-narrator
Period: contemporary
313 pages · Paperback · No Exit Press
Content warnings: murder, violence