The First Killer

The First Killer: A Gideon Shaw Mystery — Book Six By Harlan Voss Published by North Watch House Publishing Some cases end. Others wait. When old evidence resurfaces from the first major murder case of Gideon Shaw's career, he is forced to confront a possibility he never imagined: the man he helped put away may have been only part of the story. The original investigation appeared straightforward. A killer was identified. A case was closed. Gideon built a career on what came next. But decades later, new evidence suggests someone else was there. Someone who manipulated the scene. Someone who understood how to shape witnesses, redirect investigators, and bury the truth beneath a story everyone was willing to believe. As Gideon and homicide detective Lena Mercer reopen the case, the investigation reaches deep into the secrets that have haunted Gideon throughout the series—and back to the unresolved death of Rebecca Holloway. For years, Gideon has chased fragments: missing evidence, altered testimony, stolen voices, false confessions, and witnesses who disappeared before they could tell him what they knew. Now those fragments are beginning to form a picture. And somebody is willing to kill to keep Gideon from seeing it clearly. With the past closing in and the people closest to him increasingly at risk, Gideon must finally answer the question that has defined his life as an investigator: What happens when catching a killer is only the beginning? Dark, atmospheric, and relentlessly suspenseful, The First Killer is the sixth novel in the Gideon Shaw Mystery series and the culmination of the mystery that began in The Last Quiet Room. Packed with psychological suspense, cold-case secrets, forensic twists, betrayal, and the evolving partnership between Gideon Shaw and Lena Mercer, The First Killer brings the first major Gideon Shaw story arc to its most dangerous case yet. Because sometimes the first killer isn't the one you should fear most.