The Eulogy

He sealed the doors. She has until midnight to read what he hid.
Nora Voss reads handwriting for a living. As a forensic document examiner, she can tell when a signature is forged, when a letter has been altered, and when a hand is shaking from fear. She has never met Arthur Wren. So why has the dying patriarch of one of the region's oldest families named her in his will?
The summons brings her to the Wren estate on the night of a savage storm. The road floods. The phone lines go down. And before the family can gather to hear the reading, every door in the house is sealed with signed paper strips that no one is allowed to break until midnight.
Inside a wooden box are forty-one unsent letters in Arthur's own hand. Some are warm. Some are blank. Some seem to say nothing at all. But Nora knows what a careful hand can hide, and the longer she reads, the more certain she becomes that the letters are not what they seem.
Someone in the house is watching her work. Someone has already tried to stop her. And someone she trusts has been lying since before she arrived.
With a locked house, a rising flood, and a family that has kept the same secret for nearly forty years, Nora must decode the letters before the clock runs out, and before the truth finds her first.
For readers of Agatha Christie, Anthony Horowitz and Ruth Ware: a slow-burning, atmospheric mystery about family, guilt, and the words people cannot bring themselves to say.
Read the first page. Then try to stop.