A Stranger's Last Conversation

Jo Whitfield just wanted a quiet corner to finish a presentation. Instead, she overhears a stranger's life falling apart one table over — a breakup gone quietly desperate, a grandmother's death, the kind of thing you forget by the time you order your next coffee. Jo doesn't forget it. She texts the whole overheard drama to her best friend Bethany, feels better about her own mess for a night, and moves on.

Six days later, the woman turns up dead beside a half-loaded U-Haul, in what police are calling a burglary gone wrong. There's just one problem: no forced entry. Jo can't stop turning that detail over.

With Bethany egging her on and a grieving sister who trusts nothing the police tell her, Jo and Bethany turn amateur sleuths, pulling at threads that were never meant to unravel: a boyfriend with two mortgages and a new girlfriend already moved in, a foreclosure notice discovered four days before the murder, and a pattern that stretches back to a woman who escaped him four years before. What starts as morbid curiosity becomes an obligation — and the closer they get to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes to know it.

A Stranger's Last Conversation is a fast, twisty amateur-sleuth mystery novel about the stories we can't help collecting — and the ones that collect us back. It's Book One in a brand-new murder mystery series, perfect for book club picks and fans of domestic suspense who love a page-turning whodunit with real emotional stakes. Book Two, A Detective's Last Case, is already underway.