The Night

Josephine “Jo” Harper PI Series

Eight years after her best friend Rachel vanished during a lakeside graduation party, PI Josephine Harper still can’t let go of the case that shattered her life. When a cryptic letter arrives just days before her class reunion, Jo is forced back to Ridgewell—and back to the box of evidence the police gave up on years ago, a box filled with nothing but dead ends.

As Jo sifts through police files and old memories, the chilling facts refuse to let her move on. The river was dredged, the woods combed, but the only trace of Rachel was her purple purse left neatly by the dock, as if someone wanted it to be found. Every clue reminds Jo of the promises she made—and the questions she was never able to bury. Every conversation at the reunion tears open old wounds and stirs new doubts.

The town mourned, searched, and then moved on. Jo never did. This time, she’s not leaving Ridgewell empty-handed. Some secrets refuse to stay buried—and Jo won’t stop digging until she finds the truth.