About the book

The river is rising behind the flood wall. And the man who watches Iris Stellick has learned her name.

Since February, night death investigator Iris Stellick has carried what she saw in an old man's front room on Haldane Street: one lamp lit, the mirrors draped in black, and a stranger who looked straight at her. Arthur Kessane's death was signed as natural. Iris knows better, and she knows that something he kept close for years is gone.

Then the spring rise floods the low wards, and two teenage brothers are found drowned in the basement of a boarded-up house three doors from her own. The coroner calls it an accident: two boys exploring an empty house in a flood. But floodwater ruins a walk, the river is coming up again, and the first person to walk that night isn't Iris. It's her brother Wes, alone and unanchored, and he comes back saying, "He saw me."

Now a killer has seen two Stellicks. Detective Theo Castellanos has stopped arguing with Iris and started holding on. And every time the water rises, it takes more of the evidence with it.

Before Arthur Kessane Died is the second Iris Stellick Thriller.

What to expect

A new murder case, closed in this book
A killer who can see the people hunting him
A slow-burn partnership that deepens across the series

Closed-door romance: slow-burn tension, with no on-page sex. Contains suspense, murder, menace, non-graphic violence and the off-page deaths of two teenagers in a flood.

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