The Cousin Who Buried Her

She took a DNA test on a whim. It led the police to her family. And one of them is a killer.

Ren Voss is forty-one, an emergency room nurse, the one everyone in her family leans on. On her birthday she spits into a mail-order DNA tube, half-curious about the origins she never knew. Six weeks later, two detectives are at her door.

A nineteen-year-old girl named Holly Swann was murdered in 1999 and written off as a runaway. For twenty-six years the case went cold. Now the science has caught up, and the genetic trail leads straight into Ren's own bloodline. The killer isn't a stranger.

The killer is family.

As Ren is quietly drawn into the investigation, she tells herself she's protecting the people she loves. But every door she opens leads somewhere worse, every person she clears makes the truth more unbearable, and the closer she gets, the more she realizes the one suspect she cannot bring herself to see is the person standing right beside her—the kind, steady cousin who always arrives when something needs fixing.

Because your blood isn't only yours. It's a confession about everyone who shares it. And some people will do anything to keep that confession buried.

A slow-burn psychological thriller about loyalty, complicity, and the lies we tell to protect the people we love, The Cousin Who Buried Her builds to a confrontation that will leave you wondering what you would do if the monster at the table had your own face.

For readers who love twisty, character-driven suspense and an ending that refuses to look away.