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The Name She Wrote: A Christian Cold Case Suspense Novel
Paperback
Series: A Gabriel Foster Cold Case Files Novel, Book 3
Mystery & ThrillerChristian FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 22 2026
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A child wrote down the wrong name. Fifty years later, the truth is finally ready to be read.
A complete, self-contained Christian cold-case mystery. No prior reading required.
In the summer of 1979, ten-year-old Sadie Mast disappeared from a church camp in the quiet community of Marrow Creek.
Her friend Holly Reier knew something terrible had happened. She also believed she knew who was responsible. But frightened, confused, and unable to accuse the man everyone trusted, Holly wrote another man's name in her childhood diary.
An innocent man died beneath the weight of suspicion.
The real killer remained beloved.
For fifty years, Holly has carried the diary from home to home, never daring to open the page she sealed as a child. Now sixty and determined not to take the truth to her grave, she brings it to Claire Lawson-the woman known for reading the forgotten testimonies, damaged records, and buried truths others would rather leave untouched.
What begins with a frightened witness and a child's handwriting leads Claire and investigator Gabriel Foster into a cold case someone has been quietly controlling for half a century.
Evidence has vanished. Records have been altered. A town still protects the memory of its most revered man. And someone is watching every step of the investigation.
To uncover what happened to Sadie, Holly must finally confront the name she could not write-and the truth she has spent a lifetime trying not to remember.
But some communities would rather preserve a beautiful lie than survive the truth.
The Name She Wrote is an emotionally powerful Christian cold-case suspense novel about memory, guilt, institutional silence, spiritual accountability, and the courage required to bring hidden things into the light.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:
- layered cold-case mysteries
- dual timelines and buried secrets
- clean, character-driven suspense
- morally complex investigations
- compassionate stories of faith, truth, and redemption
Part of the Claire Lawson and Gabriel Foster series, this novel features a complete mystery with a fully resolved central investigation and can be enjoyed entirely on its own.
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