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A missing chapter. A real murder. A story that refuses to stay on the page.

When a woman is found dead in a forest clearing, the scene echoes a crime from a bestselling novel—down to details that were never published. Fifteen years earlier, author Nathan Cole cut a chapter he believed went too far: a fictional solution to a real, unsolved murder. Now someone appears to have used that deleted chapter as a blueprint.

As a journalist and a retired detective follow the trail of an unpublished manuscript, they uncover a chain of secrets—stolen pages, false alibis, and the unsettling possibility that fiction can predict, provoke, or repeat reality.

The Ghost of Chapter 13 is a quiet, cerebral thriller about authorship, guilt, and the dangerous boundary between imagination and truth—where the most terrifying question isn’t who committed the crime, but whether it was written first.

©2025 Kurt Dawson (P)2026 Kurt Dawson
Crime Horror Psychological Thriller & Suspense Exciting Fiction Detective Murder Cold Case Haunted
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