The Last Good Girl

Four dead men. Four spotless reputations. Four histories someone worked very hard to bury.Detective Nadia Cross came to Cascade Falls after refusing to alter a report when the truth became politically inconvenient. She expected a fresh start.Instead, her first major investigation leads her to a killer unlike any she's hunted before.The victims are respected businessmen, husbands, community leaders-the kind of men cities mourn without hesitation. But beneath the public records Nadia finds something else: dismissed domestic-violence complaints, sealed files, vanished evidence, and women who asked the system for help and received nothing.Someone remembered.Delia Marsh has spent sixteen years as a crisis counselor listening to women explain exactly how institutions failed them. Quiet, meticulous, and almost impossible to trace, she has spent nearly a decade building a record of her own.Now Nadia is following it straight to her.As detective and killer move toward an inevitable confrontation, Nadia faces a question no police academy prepared her to answer: What does justice mean when the murderer is guilty-but the dead were protected by the same system hunting her?A morally complex psychological crime thriller told from both sides of the investigation, The Last Good Girl launches the Cascade Falls series with a battle between law, truth, and the dangerous space between them. Alex Vance writes intricate mystery, thriller, and suspense with a signature focus on layered clues, cerebral investigations, and tightly engineered twists. Vance's stories are built like puzzles-carefully structured, psychologically charged, and designed to reward sharp-eyed readers who love to solve alongside the detective. Whether unraveling pattern-based crimes or exposing the hidden logic behind human violence, Vance delivers smart, immersive thrillers where every thread connects-and nothing is accidental.