Piper

After losing her family, Piper Novak is taking a hiatus from her family’s private detective agency to write suspense/thriller novels. While engaging with her critique group on her online forum, a troll posts some disturbing comments—‘The only way to write about a convincing psycho and murder scene is to do it in real life and write it from your experience,’ he says.One by one, the members of her critique group go missing and snuff videos along with chapter snippets of their torturous demise are posted on the forum. He’s saving her for last, he says in a note tacked to her shed.Detective Marcus Peters, who is Piper’s deceased brother’s best friend and who she’s been secretly in love with since she was a girl, takes on the case. Unfortunately, a murder, much less that of a serial killer, is more than he and his quaint and peaceful community has ever had to bear.Can Marcus and Piper catch the killer troll—one who’s a member of their community and might possibly be a friend—before it’s Piper’s turn on the chopping block?