Pretty Places

For almost twenty years, a serial killer has hidden his crimes inside ordinary tragedies. True-crime writer Eva Lah is the first to see the pattern.

When a young man is pulled from the river in picture-perfect Ljubljana, the police see a tragic drowning. But true-crime writer Eva Lah looks closer—and uncovers something much more sinister.

Young men drowned in eerily similar circumstances. Women connected to them dead or missing. Nearly two decades of deaths no one ever thought to connect.

No one suspects a serial killer.

No one except Eva.

But seeing the pattern is one thing. Proving it is another. And hunting a murderer who officially doesn’t exist is more than Eva can do alone.

She turns to former US Military Special Investigator Mark Novak—the one investigator she trusts to follow the evidence everyone else overlooked.

Together, they trace a pattern designed to remain invisible—one that leads them closer to a killer who has spent years making murder look like tragedy.

For the first time, the killer is being hunted.

And he has nearly twenty years of secrets to protect.

Pretty Places is Book 2 in E&M Investigations, a dark European crime series where true-crime writer Eva pursues the stories others overlook and former military investigator Mark follows the evidence—no matter where it leads.