In Verrin, a small county seat, the courthouse keeps two records of every life it has held: the certified transcript in the basement, and what the town repeats around the square. For thirty-one years Marian Reeve took down testimony word for word and trusted the two to agree — until a case she sealed long ago comes back to prove a record can be flawless and still be a lie. Hearsay is a quiet, literary crime series about a retired court reporter who works the cases the evidence can't reach: the deathbed line, the recanted confession, the threat heard through a wall. Each book turns on a single thing no court would admit — and on the distance between what was said and what was meant.
Book 1 What The Wall Heard
Literary Fiction · 20,203 words
Book 2 The Exact Size of a Lie
Literary Fiction · 20,317 words
High in the folds of the Pindos mountains, the old villages are dying, and with them the songs and namings no one ever wrote down. A folklorist climbs to them with a tape recorder and open arms, certain he is bringing mercy. He is mistaken. The Karelis Letters is Greek folk horror told in the first person — a slow, mounting dread in which the listener becomes the listened-to, and what a man came to collect begins, quietly, to collect him.