A killer is turning murder scenes into stories.

When criminal profiler Dr. Elias Thorne is called to a brutal homicide in a rain-soaked Boston alley, one detail refuses to fit. The victim's shoes are perfectly dry.

It should be impossible.

As more bodies appear, every clue seems designed to point investigators toward a notorious interstate serial killer. The FBI takes over. The evidence is overwhelming. But Elias can't shake the feeling that someone isn't hiding the truth?they're teaching everyone how to read it the wrong way.

With Detective Marcus Vance racing against a killer who always seems one step ahead, Elias is forced to confront the mistake that destroyed her career years ago. This time, the greatest danger isn't what the evidence reveals...

It's what everyone is certain it means.

As the investigation closes in on a forgotten institution and a man who believes the world can be rewritten one victim at a time, Elias discovers that solving the case will require more than catching a murderer.

She'll have to stop believing the story she's been telling herself.

The Dry Shoes is a tense psychological crime thriller about grief, guilt, and the dangerous difference between evidence and interpretation.