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The Minor Character
Paperback
Publisher: Alison Higgins
Published: Oct 19 2026
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
She invented a murderer. Someone made him real.
When bestselling crime novelist Catherine Bell learns that her former literary agent has been murdered, she expects an uncomfortable conversation with the police.
She doesn't expect them to ask about Martin Shaw.
Martin was a minor character Catherine cut from her first novel seven years ago. Now his name has appeared on a reservation connected to a real murder. And someone knows details from a manuscript that was never published.
As more deaths follow, Catherine discovers her discarded work has reached people who were never supposed to see it.
But the manuscript isn't her only problem.
Years earlier, Catherine used confidential research about a missing woman to create a story, concealing facts that should never have been hers to control. Now those decisions are catching up with her, threatening her career and drawing attention to secrets she'd rather keep buried.
Someone knows what Catherine wrote.
The more frightening question is what they know about her.
A darkly witty psychological crime thriller about dangerous secrets and the stories we tell to protect ourselves.
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