Say My Name: A True-Crime Novel

SAY MY NAME is a true crime story about a crime that never happened

On the heels of a divorce, the midlist writer ("Buddy") of a successful mystery series returns to his hometown of Berlin, CT, to teach at his alma mater

An Amber alert about two teenage sisters puts those plans on hold

This latest disappearance recalls a crime eerily reminiscent of a hometown abduction thirty-five years earlier, involving classmates/twin sisters Annabel and Ava Rodgers (AKA the Rodgers Twins), whose bodies were never recovered

With the help of his old high school friends, Jim Case, Ron Lamontagne, and town cop Wayne Wright, Buddy navigates past fractured relationships, which includes his Uncle Iver, his sole surviving family member, as well as the one that got away, Melissa "Mel" McPhee, whose cousin Danny has long been the prime suspect of the missing twins

As Buddy zeroes in on Danny, he exposes the horrific secrets of a quaint, idyllic New England town

And as two cases-the latest disappearance and the decades' old cold disappearance-coalesce, Buddy is forced to question everything he was once sure of.Fusing modern psychological thrillers with popular unsolved mysteries (think: Unspeakable Things meets In Cold Blood), this meta blend of true crime and fiction plays with expectations and perspective as it races toward its shocking conclusion.