THE FOURTH VICTIM

THE FOURTH VICTIM
THE FOURTH VICTIM

Three women are dead. The police say it’s a suicide cluster. The reporter knows better.

In the rainy, blue-collar city of Barrow Falls, Massachusetts, three women have jumped from the same bridge in eighteen months. Same time of night. Same method. No witnesses. No notes. No connections between the victims—except one.

They all visited Dr. Elias Vance, a revered trauma therapist, in the weeks before their deaths.

Reporter Maya Cross is drowning. Her career stalled after a high-profile libel suit. Her marriage is crumbling. Her teenage daughter won’t look at her. She’s been exiled to the obituaries desk, writing epitaphs for people who died the way everyone expected them to.

Then she notices the pattern.

Three women. One bridge. One therapist.

Her editor calls it a coincidence. The police call it closed. Dr. Vance calls it a tragedy and offers his condolences to the families on live television, his face smooth and sorrowful and perfect.

Maya doesn’t believe in coincidences.

She begins digging. She finds a fourth woman—still alive, still seeing Dr. Vance, still dreaming of bridges. But when Maya tries to warn her, the woman disappears. Vanishes from her apartment. From her job. From existence.

The police say she ran away. Dr. Vance says he’s devastated. Maya says someone took her.

No one listens.

Because the fourth victim hasn’t jumped yet. And Dr. Vance has already decided who will find the body.


1. THE BRIDGE AT MIDNIGHT


2. THE OBITUARY WRITER


3. THE THIRD VICTIM


4. THE THERAPIST’S SMILE


5. THE SISTER’S PLEA


6. THE FOURTH WOMAN


7. THE DISAPPEARANCE


8. THE EMPTY APARTMENT


9. THE GASLIGHT


10. THE FIRST STEP


11. THE TUESDAY NIGHT GROUP


12. THE FIFTH WOMAN


13. THE RECORDING


14. THE VOICES


15. THE CONFESSION


16. THE FIRE


17. THE ACCUSATION


18. THE HIDEOUT


19. THE JOURNAL


20. THE PATTERN COMPLETES


21. THE HOUSE ON HILLCREST DRIVE


22. THE SAFE


23. THE FACES


24. THE WATCHER


25. THE ESCAPE


26. THE EVIDENCE


27. THE BROADCAST


28. THE INTERRUPTION


29. THE FIFTH VICTIM


30. THE BRIDGE


31. THE JUMP


32. THE RESCUE & THE WATER


33. THE MANHUNT & THE SIXTH VICTIM


34. THE SEARCH & THE CONFESSION


35. THE YEARS OF PAIN & THE LIST


36. THE FALL


37. THE SURVIVORS & THE FAMILIES


38. THE FUGITIVE & THE CHASE


39. THE CABIN & THE CONFRONTATION


40. THE CHOICE & THE ARREST


41. THE TRIAL & THE VERDICT


42. THE WITNESS & THE BRIDGE (EPILOGUE)


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