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The Dead Girl Called 911: A Gripping Crime Thriller About a Murdered Girl Who Calls 911 Three Days After Her Death
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The girl on the phone is begging for help.
There's only one problem.
She's been dead for three days.
At 2:13 a.m., emergency dispatcher Nora Vale answers what should be another routine 911 call.
A terrified teenage girl whispers from the other end.
She's trapped.
She doesn't know exactly where she is.
And she believes the man holding her captive is coming back.
Nora asks for her name.
The girl answers:
Lucy Mercer.
Nora freezes.
Everyone in town knows that name.
Seventeen-year-old Lucy Mercer disappeared days earlier.
Her body was found beside the river.
Her father identified her.
And the police have already opened a murder investigation.
Lucy Mercer is dead.
At first, Detective Ethan Hale assumes the call is a sick hoax.
Then the girl mentions something about the body.
A red hospital bracelet hidden beneath its sleeve.
A detail that was never released to the public.
Suddenly, an impossible question becomes a terrifying possibility:
What if the police buried the wrong girl?
When Lucy calls 911 again, she gives Nora a warning.
Don't trust the man who found my body.
Then the line goes dead.
The investigation that follows begins tearing apart everything the town believes about Lucy's murder.
The body was identified before DNA testing was complete.
Security cameras went dark at critical moments.
An abandoned house searched by police contains a room nobody entered.
And hidden beneath Briar Lane is evidence that someone was alive there after Lucy was supposedly murdered.
But the deeper Nora and Hale investigate, the stranger the case becomes.
Because Lucy isn't calling 911 randomly.
She specifically wants Nora.
And somehow, Lucy knows about Owen-Nora's younger brother, who died from an apparent overdose five years earlier.
A death Nora never completely understood.
Soon the two cases begin colliding.
A dead girl who isn't dead.
Another girl whose body was given the wrong name.
A forgotten investigation.
A mysterious security technician.
A powerful sheriff.
And evidence connecting them all to something that began years before Lucy ever called 911.
Someone has spent years making inconvenient people disappear.
Someone inside the investigation knows Lucy survived.
And every time she calls for help...
they get closer to finding her.
Nora has spent thousands of nights answering strangers at the worst moments of their lives.
This time, she has only one job:
Keep the dead girl talking long enough to find out where she is.
Because Lucy Mercer has already been declared dead once.
Someone intends to make sure the second time is real.
The Dead Girl Called 911 is a dark, fast-paced crime thriller packed with a missing-girl investigation, buried evidence, police corruption, an impossible emergency call, cold-case secrets, and twists that transform what appeared to be a solved murder into something far more dangerous.
The police found her body.
Her family buried her.
Three nights later, she called 911.
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