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Red Letter

"I inhaled this book. With killer twist after twist, I defy you to predict where it's going." -- John Marrs, international bestselling author of You Killed Me First

A DEAD BODY. A MYSTERIOUS RED LETTER.

Hazel has everything she wants.

Business is booming at her boutique private investigation firm. She's dating the man of her dreams. Even her perpetually skeptical mother seems impressed. Then the NYPD finds a beloved neighborhood priest dead along with a mysterious red letter.

Hazel investigates the murder as a favor to an old friend and discovers that the priest wasn't the only recent murder victim to receive a red letter...and one victim has ties to a psychopath from a past life that Hazel thought she had buried. One by one, the red letters continue to appear, and with every letter, another killing, each more mysterious than the last.

As Hazel closes in on the killer, the killer closes in on her, and Hazel begins to question everything she thought she knew about herself and the people around her. Even worse, Hazel discovers that the only way to find the truth is to open one more...

RED LETTER

Fans of Freida McFadden's The Locked Door, Charlie Donlea's The Girl Who Was Taken, and Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone will love this suspense-filled thrill ride.

Pages: 400

ISBN: 9781464246395

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Carla B.

Feb 8, 2026

Private investigator Hazel Cho is riding high. Her New York office phones will not stop ringing, her love life finally looks stable, and even her picky mom offers a rare nod of approval. Then a neighborhood priest is found murdered beside a blood-red envelope. Hazel agrees to poke around for an old friend and learns the priest is only one in a chain of victims who got the same crimson warning. Each fresh letter means another body. Worse, one target links back to a psychopath Hazel hoped was ancient history. The hunt turns personal fast, and Hazel must decide whether opening one final letter is the only way to stop the killings, or the quickest way to join the victims.

Spillin’ the Book Tea:
Hazel Cho is back, sharper than a tack and twice as stubborn. I flew through these pages and never guessed that jaw-drop ending. Every twist landed, none felt cheap, and I may have yelled “No way” at my Kindle more than once.

Daniel Miller tightens the screws with each red letter, yet still sneaks in quiet moments that remind you why Hazel refuses to quit. When the past crawls out of its grave, she meets it head-on. Resilient barely covers it; the woman is a brick wall in heels.

Huge thanks to Poisoned Pen Press and NetGalley for the early copy that wrecked my sleep schedule in the best possible way. Opinions are, as always, my own caffeine-fueled hot takes.

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