THE DOOR MUST REMAIN OPEN

When two boys disappear from her hometown, Daphne Gauge sees eerie parallels to her brother’s disappearance 30 years earlier. What her husband dismisses as graffiti, Daphne fears are symbols harkening to an ancient Norse god. Digging more deeply, she uncovers evidence of the town’s belief that sacrifice endows wealth and power. Is this more than a bloodthirsty urban myth?

When no one believes her, she considers giving in to the F.B.I.’s request that someone in Daphne’s family go on record about what happened in 1988.

If she grants an interview, Daphne must confess dark secrets that strike close to home and just might unmask the killer from back then . . . and now.

Cover Design: Maryann Appel

Illustration: wilqku / bphillips

Photos never lie.

Still grieving his toddler’s death, Philadelphia P.D. Detective Dan Brennan is assigned to investigate a socialite’s fatal fall down her mansion’s staircase. The victim’s daughter alleges her mother was murdered. Her evidence? The dead on the vintage photographs displayed on the mansion’s walls have told her so. The epileptic young woman claims she can talk to the dead. Compelled to listen to the reclusive teen’s pleas, Brennan sets out to look into her mother’s death and stumbles upon a disturbing commonality as he reopens a quartet of cold cases. Entangled in the wealthy family’s long history of madness and murder, Brennan faces a choice: label the death an accident and save his career, or commit professional suicide for the chance to hear his daughter’s voice once again.

“A riveting thriller with a spine-tingling edge.”

—Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling thriller author

Hardcover ISBN 9780744304992 | $24.99 | Releases 10/18/2022

J. L. Delozier draws inspiration from science that exists on the edge of reality—bizarre medical anomalies, new genetic discoveries, and anything that seems too weird to be true. Her debut thriller was nominated for a “Best First Novel” award by the International Thriller Writers organization; her fourth novel won a Silver Falchion Award. Her short fiction has won an Omega Award and appeared in Artemis Journal, The Pittsburger, Thriller Magazine, Retreats from Oblivion, and the anthologies, Noirville: Tales from the Dark Side and Writers Crushing COVID-19. By day, she’s an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Penn State.