Charlie Diamond
Author of the Ethan Sloan Mysteries
Every city has places it prefers not to remember.
Beneath The Surface
Ethan Sloan.
He writes mysteries.
Until one begins writing itself around him.
Detective Mara Reyes
She doesn't believe in coincidences.
Only evidence.
Ethan and Detective Reyes
Warehouse District
When a woman is found murdered in the San Antonio River Walk area, with a cryptic literary message tied to her wrist, Detective Mara Reyes discovers the killing may be connected to once-celebrated novelist, Ethan Sloan.Seven years earlier, Sloan's career collapsed after a real homicide in Colorado appeared to imitate a murder scene from his bestselling novel Ash Summit. Though never charged, Sloan vanished from public life and became the center of a national controversy.Now someone has pulled Ethan Sloan back into the narrative.As Mara and Ethan uncover hidden tunnels beneath the city, buried property deals, and long-forgotten connections to Colorado, they realize the murder was designed not simply to kill, but to manipulate the story surrounding it.Atmospheric, layered, and deeply immersive, Beneath the Surface is a literary noir mystery about memory, reputation, power, and the dangerous stories people choose to believe.