Fragile Lucidity: Thriller

A retired librarian with a failing mind leaves a terrified message on a police tip line - and seven weeks later she is dead, drowned in the Everglades, ruled an accident. Detective Ray Mercer cannot let it go. A war behind him and a buried son beside him, Ray follows the old woman's last clear words into a pattern of murder that stretches across forty years and half a country - the work of a killer so patient, so ordinary, that no one ever thought to look. When the FBI sends Special Agent Dana Calloway to help him hunt the faceless traveler, the two wounded strangers find something neither expected. But Dana does not know the truth Ray is carrying. She does not know the dead woman who started it all. And she does not know that the gentle old man at the end of the trail is the one person she could never bring herself to suspect. Some truths surface only in the dark. A taut, haunting thriller about memory, blood, and the fragile, flickering clarity that can outlast even death.

Pages: 243, Paperback, Independently published