Description:
Inheriting a stone-cold case and determined not to repeat the mistakes of the past, Detective Callie Forde must investigate a town harboring long-buried secrets in a race to find the true killer before he strikes again.
Brief description: The first thing K.L. Murphy wrote was a modified screenplay of a 1970s TV show. She and her siblings performed that show for their own built-in audience (mom and dad) to rave reviews (again, mom and dad!). Later, she moved on to high school journalism before graduating from college and taking a detour into finance and banking. Once she began writing again and focusing on fiction, the process felt like coming home. K.L. Murphy is the author of Last Girl Missing (Book 1 in the Detective Callie Forde series) and the forthcoming The Great Forgotten (November 2025) as well as the award-nominated Her Sister's Death, a January 2023 Once Upon a Book Club Pick. Of Her Sister's Death, Publishers Weekly said, "Murphy keeps the tension high..." and "readers will eagerly turn the pages" and Library Journal called the book "[A] riveting tale..." In addition, she is the author of the Detective Cancini Mystery Series featuring A Guilty Mind, Stay of Execution, and The Last Sin. Her short stories have appeared in several anthologies and she co-edited Crime in the Old Dominion. K.L. makes her home in Richmond, VA, where she loves spending time with her family, friends, and two amazing dogs.