Cutter's Reach

About this book

A body washes ashore in Maine with Caribbean saltwater in its lungs. For medical examiner Mara Halloran, a lie she told twenty years ago is coming home: the witnesses of one night at sea are being drowned, one by one. A medical thriller of guilt and old debts.

A body washes ashore in Maine with Caribbean saltwater in its lungs, and for Dr. Mara Halloran, a twenty-year-old lie is finally coming home to kill. For seventeen years, Mara has served as Penobscot County’s medical examiner, hiding a dark secret from her husband and her state trooper son: in 2006, she falsified three death certificates to save her father from a ruthless smuggler.

Now, the witnesses from that fateful night on the Maeve Constance are being systematically eliminated. The killer isn’t just drowning them; they are using water from the exact Caribbean passage where the original crime began. As the bodies pile up, Mara must conduct a secret investigation into her own past while maintaining her professional mask.

With her family’s safety on the line and a killer closing the circle, Mara must decide if the truth is worth the life she has built. Fans of Tess Gerritsen’s medical precision and the atmospheric tension of Jane Harper will be gripped by this haunting exploration of guilt and generational sin.

In the cold waters of Maine, some secrets refuse to stay submerged. Can Mara stop the killer before she becomes the final witness to be silenced? Grab your copy today.