Off the Air: a gripping psychological thriller with shocking twist

A psychological thriller featuring a broke rookie reporter, a small Kentucky TV station being torn down, and the beloved anchor who vanished from its parking lot thirty years ago - where the warmest person in the building is the one you should fear most.She thought she was digitizing dead tape. She was digging up a murder.I got the worst job in television. Six hours from anyone who knows me, buried in a basement, cataloging thirty years of a dying station's archive before they demolish the building. Nobody wanted the work. Nobody wanted me. Except Aimee - the news director who pours my coffee, tells me I'm good at this, and is the only person in this town who makes me feel like I matter.Then I found the tapes of Eden Mills. The morning anchor who left for work one pre-dawn morning and was pulled out of her own parking lot, never to be seen again.Everyone knows the story. The creep who couldn't take no. The cold woman who inherited her chair. I chased them both, and I was wrong both times.Because the whole town spent thirty years watching the loud, obvious danger. And nobody once turned around to look at the quiet, capable woman in the booth - the one nobody ever had a reason to doubt.I feared the right man. I trusted the wrong woman. And I'm about to make Eden's exact mistake.Click Read Now or Buy Now to step inside a dead-of-night newsroom where a thirty-year-old lie is finally about to air - and the person who's been kind to you all along is the one who's going to kill you for it. You will not guess who did it until it's far too late.Featuring these tropes: - Overqualified heroine who saves herself with the skill everyone despised- Dual-timeline structure that reframes everything on the final page- The warm, trusted ally you'll never suspect- A cold-case murder cracked by pure reasoning- Small-town secrets and a killer hiding in plain sight GENRE: Psychological Thriller TROPES: unreliable trust, dual timeline, cold-case murder, who-is-the-villain, hidden-in-plain-sight killer, feared-the-man-trusted-the-woman, workplace suspense, twist ending TONE: slow-burn dread, mounting isolation, gut-punch reveal, analog-era cold-case tension HEAT LEVEL: no on-page romance, pure suspense COMPS: Freida McFadden, Riley Sager, Ruth Ware, Shari Lapena SERIES: Standalone