Requiem

A promise kept. A name given. A grave reopened.

A year after she closed the Hennessey case, Mara Quinn keeps the promise she made in a prison parking lot: one visit, every year, on Sarah Callahans birthday. She goes expecting Thomass riddles. This time he speaks plainly — and gives her a name.

Mikey Keane, thirty-two, walked out of his life last November. No note, no fight, no body. His sister Deirdre has been calling Mara for a year, and the silence underneath her voice keeps getting heavier. The name Thomas gives her cracks the case open — and the trail runs straight back twenty years, to the winter of 2005–2006, and to what got buried when Sarah Callahan died.

The deeper Mara digs, the harder the past pushes back: a boiler room, a vanished brother, and people who have spent two decades making sure some graves stay closed. And Thomas behind his glass, watching her work — the one man alive who knows exactly what it costs to love the dead more than the living.

Gritty, twisty, and impossible to put down, Requiem is the second book in the Mara Quinn mystery series — for readers who like their detectives damaged, their killers clever, and their endings earned.