Book Three · Steel City Mysteries

The Heiress

Same hair. Same clothes.
Same alibi.

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“My daughter is missing. Her boyfriend is dead. The woman paid to protect her has stolen her clothes, her hair, her mannerisms. And quite possibly, her alibi.”

“This is a crisis.”

— Bubsy Carmichael

Pittsburgh, January 1997. Jessica Greer has just refused to sign her name to one more convenient story. Then Bubsy Carmichael walks into her Butler Street office without an appointment.

Bubsy’s daughter Cat — newlywed, notorious party girl, heir to what’s left of an industrial fortune — is gone. So is Madison, the sober minder paid to keep Cat out of the papers. The one who started wearing Cat’s clothes. Styling her hair the same way. Borrowing her expressions.

The police say the two women left on a bender. The agency agrees. But Cat’s boyfriend is dead, the rumors are multiplying, and Bubsy has until the weekend before a search becomes another Carmichael scandal.

Jessica runs crisis communications, not missing-persons cases. She knows how a story gets built. And somebody is already building this one — around two women nobody can tell apart.

For fans of Gillian Flynn, Shari Lapena, and Megan Abbott.

Series Steel City Mysteries, Book Three
Setting Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1997
Formats Kindle Unlimited · Paperback · Limited-edition signed ebook (direct)
Length TBA
Release Date January 2027
Genre Psychological Suspense · Mystery · Crime Fiction
Themes Old money, missing women, borrowed identities, who gets believed
Author L.L. Kirchner · entertaining stories that sneak up on you

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