Is Grace’s Alter Personality a Murderer … or is She the Next Victim?

Finalist for the crime writers of canada Howard Engel award for best crime novel set in canada.
Selected by the Globe and Mail as one of the Top 100 Books of 2022.
Chosen by the Vancouver Sun as one of five B.C. books to buy this holiday season.

In a riveting psychological thriller for readers of Lisa Unger and Karin Slaughter, Grace’s healing solitude is shattered when she becomes a suspect in a gruesome series of murders.

Decades before, Grace DeRoche escaped the fundamentalist Mormon compound of Brigham and worked to prosecute the leaders. But when loyalists, including her own family, committed mass suicide to avoid jail, Grace retreated into solitude. Racked with guilt and suffering from dissociative identity disorder brought on by childhood abuse, Grace’s life is fragmented and full of blind spots. Dissociative triggers are everywhere, and she never knows when an alter personality will take the reins.

When other Brigham escapees die under suspicious circumstances, Grace’s tenuous hold on reality crumbles. Notes left at each scene quote scripture and accuse the deceased of committing sins so grievous atonement can only be achieved through the spilling of blood. As evidence mounts against her and one of her alter personalities becomes the prime suspect, Grace must determine if she’s a murderer … or the next victim.