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Everyone in Newford knew Frank Carter. He was the friendly bestselling novelist on the porch with his laptop and sweet tea, the man who'd traded the city for a quiet Oklahoma town so he could write about murder in peace. No one thought to ask why a man who wrote about killers seemed to know so much about how to get away with one, until now.
When two old friends reel in more than they bargained for on Lake Thunderbird, Newford's sleepy calm shatters. Sheriff Dan Johnson has never handled anything bigger than a Friday-night bar fight, and the case is quickly out of his depth-so NYPD detective Marcus Reilly, a fish thoroughly out of water in this town of two thousand, is called in fast, before things get much worse. Together they start pulling at threads that lead somewhere Newford never expected: straight to its most beloved, most trusted resident.
Because Frank Carter isn't just a novelist. Under the sweet tea and the small-town charm is Frank Caruso-a man who thought he'd left his old life, and his old family, behind for good. He hasn't-not even close. And as Marcus and Dan dig through bank transfers, book tours, and a past nobody in this town ever suspected, they realize the line between Frank's fiction and Frank's real crimes has all but disappeared.
The Man Who Wrote Murder is a gripping small-town thriller about the neighbor you'd never suspect, the past that never really stays buried, and the price of a story that was, from the very first page, built entirely on lies.
