Steve McManus
CORRIDOR
Two reporters investigating a missing girl and a young Jane Doe uncover a series of unsolved kidnappings that point to a wealthy neighborhood where everyone seems to be hiding something in CORRIDOR, my 98,000-word commercial mystery. A standalone with series potential, CORRIDOR is told in dual POV and will appeal to fans of smart and twisty stories like VANISHED by Kendra Elliot and LOCAL WOMAN MISSING by Mary Kubica.
Up-and-coming journalist Kenya McGowan suddenly finds herself in the public spotlight after proving the prime suspect in a teenager’s widely-publicized abduction is innocent. When she links the disappearance to another girl’s two years ago, Kenya’s questions stir up old ghosts, drawing threats both professional and personal to the surface—and to her door.
Freelance news stringer Oscar Pine discovers that the victim of a fatal hit and run vanished a year ago, across town and a world away from the affluent neighborhood where her broken body was found. Coaxing reluctant residents to talk, Oscar builds the timeline of a panicked girl’s frantic last minutes spent pounding on doors that refused to open for her to escape someone Oscar suspects lives nearby.
As they talk to family members, potential witnesses, and each other, Kenya and Oscar realize that all three girls were taken by the same genteel predator who likes to torment the mothers of his victims with phone calls. Determined to expose the danger smoldering like a coal seam fire beneath the tony neighborhood’s polished veneer, Kenya and Oscar risk their reputations—and their lives—to expose the monster hiding behind a manicured façade of his own.
