Steve McManus
CORRIDOR
A series of unsolved kidnappings lead two reporters 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 is thrust into the spotlight after she proves 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 stirs up old ghosts, drawing professional and personal threats to the surface—and to her door.
Scrappy freelance news stringer Oscar Pine discovers that the young victim of a fatal hit and run vanished a year ago, across town and a world away from the affluent neighborhood where her body was found. Sifting through wary residents’ scant details and abundant lies, Oscar builds the timeline of the girl’s frantic last minutes as she pounded on doors that refused to open so she could escape from someone he suspects lives nearby.
As they talk to family members, potential witnesses, and each other, Kenya and Oscar realize that the three girls were taken by the same man, a genteel predator who likes to phone the mothers of his victims. 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 possibly their lives—to unmask a monster hiding behind a manicured façade of his own.
