by Lisa Gardner
Part of Detective D.D. Warren, book 10.5
First published 2019
Detective D. D. Warren thinks she has encountered every bizarre situation Boston can offer. Then a frantic man arrives at police headquarters with an impossible claim. He insists he is already dead. Warren and her squad explain the obvious facts. The man stands before them, breathing and talking. They send him away. Hours pass. The same man turns up as a genuine corpse. Warren faces a puzzle that defies logic. How does someone die twice? She must trace the steps between the man's desperate visit and his actual death. The case forces Warren to question what she knows about life, death, and the space between them. Gardner delivers a compact mystery that explores the thin line between perception and reality.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: puzzle, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Boston
96 pages · ebook · Cornerstone Digital