Part of North Falls
First published 2026
Sheriff Emmy Clifton arrives at 1601 Iris Drive to find Allison Vickery dead in her kitchen and her teenage daughter barely alive upstairs. The quiet residential street in North Falls masks darker truths about the Vickery family. Rumors have swirled for months about what happens behind their closed doors. Now gunshots have shattered the small town silence. Emmy works alongside her sister Jude Archer, an ex-federal agent, to piece together what really happened. The townspeople think they already know the story. But North Falls harbors buried secrets that complicate every assumption. Emmy must dig through layers of deception to find the truth about who pulled the trigger and why.
Genres: domestic-fiction, suspense, mystery, crime, adult-fiction, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, fast-paced, gritty, suspenseful
Tropes: sibling-partnership, small-town-secrets, unreliable-narrator
Setting: North Falls, 1601 Iris Drive
Period: 21st-century
416 pages · Hardcover · William Morrow
Content warnings: abuse, domestic-violence, murder