Confession Came First

A woman confesses to murdering a man who is still alive.When Rachel Venn enters a newly reopened courthouse, she calmly admits to killing Daniel Soren at exactly 8:23 p.m. She describes the room, the weapon, and his injuries in disturbing detail.There is only one problem.Daniel is still alive.Homicide detective Mara Vale soon discovers that Rachel's impossible confession is connected to a stopped courthouse clock, a secretly sharpened witness chair, a hidden speaker, and twenty missing minutes Rachel cannot remember.Then evidence begins appearing exactly as Rachel predicted.As Mara investigates, she uncovers an unauthorized proceeding buried beneath the courthouse for twenty years. Someone has manipulated Rachel's memories, altered official records, and constructed a murder scene before the murder has even occurred.Every clue Mara verifies brings the predicted crime closer to becoming real.To save Daniel, she must determine which parts of Rachel's memory are genuine, which were planted, and who is controlling the investigation from behind the scenes.But the confession may not have been created to identify the killer.It may have been designed to place Mara exactly where the killer needs her when the clock reaches 8:23.One witness. One confession. One murder that hasn't happened yet.The Confession Came First is Book Six in The Mara Vale Files, a psychological crime-thriller series filled with impossible cases, manipulated evidence, buried secrets, and fair-play clues.