Pretty Things Die Quietly

When music teacher Evelyn Hart discovers a pressed purple pansy hidden inside a donated book of sheet music, she thinks it's a forgotten bookmark.

Three days later, a local pianist is found dead.

The same flower rests in her hands.

The police call it a coincidence.

Evelyn doesn't.

As more victims appear across the city, each connected by a mysterious piece of music and a carefully placed flower, homicide detective Julian Cross is forced to admit there may be a pattern. A killer is leaving clues in plain sight-and somehow Evelyn keeps finding them first.

Together, they uncover a chilling truth.

The murders are not random.

The victims are notes in a composition decades in the making.

And someone known only as The Composer has already written the final movement.

As the clues grow more personal, Evelyn realizes she isn't simply following the investigation.

She's part of it.

Because hidden inside every melody is a message meant for her.

And the closer she gets to the truth, the more certain she becomes of one terrifying fact:

The last song has not yet been played.

And she may be its final note.

Beauty leave clues. Someone leaves bodies.