Listening in Red

Vista Del Halcon was supposed to be a quiet city. Riverside County high schools weren't supposed to become crime scenes.
When fifteen-year-old Noah Solis is found brutally attacked and thrown from a second-story window behind the school's abandoned 500 building, the student body fractures. For Kasey Ramirez, it was supposed to be a normal Friday afternoon, just an annoying ten-minute wait for a friend who flaked. Instead, she stumbles directly into a nightmare, becoming the prime suspect in a crime she didn't commit.
As rumor mills churn and teenage alibis twist over text messages, the case lands in the laps of the Vista Del Halcon Police Department. Led by a stoic veteran, a world-class forensics investigator with zero patience for drama, and a sharp, cynical tech specialist tracking the victim's digital footprint, the detectives begin to peel back the layers of the high school's social hierarchy.
But high school secrets are currency, and everyone is lying to cover their own tracks. To catch the real culprit, the detectives must untangle a messy web of hidden rivalries, quiet betrayals, and anonymous tips before the truth gets buried for good.