The Call Before Midnight – Paperback

A LATE-NIGHT CALL.

A WOMAN STILL ALIVE.

HOURS LATER, SHE’S DEAD.

On a cold, rainy night in Port Mercy, a neighbor calls the police about a disturbance in the apartment of Carolyn Webb. Rookie patrol officer Nathan Calder and his partner arrive to find Carolyn alive, uninjured, and insisting there’s no crime. They clear the call and move on.

Hours later, Carolyn is found murdered in her own living room. What began as a routine patrol call becomes a homicide investigation – and the facts of that first call begin to matter in ways no one expected.

As Nathan digs beneath the easy explanations, he encounters a web of private histories, strained relationships, and quiet debts. Every witness seems to be telling part of the truth. Every detail seems to fit – until it doesn’t.

In a city where loyalty runs deep and appearances protect more than they reveal, the line between a simple domestic dispute and a calculated crime grows harder to see.

The first call to police may be the key to everything.

Or it may be the best lie anyone ever told.