A woman is dismembered and her body parts are spread throughout the Port Huron, Michigan area. Six people each find one of parts and calls the police. Carole Sage, one of the witness' friends, tells the detectives she sees the murder in her minds' eye.
Detectives Joe Leverette and Phil Marsden are assigned the case and during the initial investigation discover that this murderer is not finished. Leverette received a box that is placed on his desk, the lab is called and the box examined. Inside the box is the head of the last witness who found a body part.
Then another witness is murdered, beheaded, but even with the help of Carole Sage the murderer gets away.
When Jane Madarang's neighbor Natalie kills herself and leaves behind cryptic instructions, it's up to Jane and her classmates to unearth deadly secrets.
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Natalie Driscoll is dead.
She threw herself out a window and left her neighbor Jane to unravel their town's darkest secrets. Following Natalie's instructions leads Jane to three other high school students who all have something to hide. The four of them must carry out Natalie's final errand while solving the mysteries written in her diary. But the secrets they unearth may be far more dangerous than what they ever imagined.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of suicide, violence and murder that may be triggering for some readers.
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