The Unpardonable Sin
A thin, breaking voice on a midnight phone call pulls private investigator Daria Crane into a case the police have already written off as an open-and-shut death on Bramble Lane. The victim had enemies. The victim had secrets. And the victim had ties to Daria's own family, a father whose choices have shadowed her since childhood, and a mother who chose silence over answers. Reopening the case means reopening wounds that never healed. Eleanor Holcomb knew the dead man better than she admits. Roy Tanaka and his father hold pieces of a financial puzzle worth killing over. Marcus Venn has alibis that unravel too easily. Lena Briggs knows who was supposed to be on Bramble Lane that night, and why Daria's name keeps surfacing in the wreckage. As a cast of suspects tightens around a single, devastating truth, Daria discovers that the unpardonable sin may not be the one already committed, but the one she is about to choose. Because the only way to expose the killer is to betray the family she has spent her whole life protecting, and some confessions, once made, can never be taken back.