Fatal Letters

In the grim winter of 1978 in the rust-belt city of Ironhaven, a series of poison-pen letters precedes each murder of a faithless lover. Detective Elias Vance, haunted by his own broken past, hunts a killer who calls himself "The Reckoner." But as the clues point to a long-buried high-school romance, Vance realizes the killer's first victim was never the one who cheated—it was the truth itself. The novel traces how a shy boy's wounded pride, a girl's desperate lie, and a city's cynical decay forged a monster, proving that fate is merely character colliding with circumstance over decades.