The Writing Exercise

A Jack Carter Story

The Writing Exercise
When journalist Jack Carter starts a simple writing prompt to shake off a creative slump, he stumbles onto the cold trail of Beverly Langford—a teenage girl who vanished two decades ago without a trace. But this isn’t just a mystery. It’s a setup. The deeper Jack digs, the more he realizes someone has been rewriting the story all along.

From old biker clubs to crooked lawyers and buried city records, The Writing Exercise pulls Carter into a web of lies, leverage, and a past that won’t stay buried. What begins as fiction turns into investigation—and the line between story and truth starts to blur.

Gritty, sharp, and driven by voice, this short novel hits like a noir confession written in the margins of a forgotten case file.