Unsent Letters

Abstract

Unsent Letters is an excerpt of an early novel draft. A homeless man witnesses a man falling from a fifteen-story building in New York's financial district. The fact that the victim, Ian Blue, was the subject of a recent fraud investigation and mostly likely facing jail time, leads Detective Finnegan O'Leary to assume he is dealing with a straightforward suicide, but information soon comes to light that indicates otherwise. Money was found under and nearby Blue's body, and Mia Blue, the victim's wife just happened to disappear on the very same day, April Fools' Day, fifteen years earlier. Her body was never found, and the crime, if there was one, never solved. Detective O'Leary, not one to believe in coincidences, sets out to solve what happened to Ian Blue and why, which ultimately leads to the reopening of a seductive fifteen-year-old cold case, and the exposure of long-buried family secrets.