The Obituary Writer of Cedar Falls

About this book:

When Nora Blythe writes the obituaries for the Cedar Falls *Gazette*, she isn’t just recording deaths—she’s cataloguing the town’s hidden sins. A routine notice for hardware‑store owner Arthur Vance arrives as a scant five‑line tribute, but a frantic phone call warns her that the story is a lie, and that the ledger Vance kept beneath his counter holds a truth someone will kill to keep buried.

From the rain‑slicked streets of a dying newspaper office to the dust‑choked archives where decades of secrets fester, Nora follows a trail of falsified vouchers, whispered threats, and a phantom byline that points to a conspiracy stretching back to the town’s very founding. Every name she prints becomes a clue, every silence a suspect, and the closer she gets to the truth, the more the past refuses to stay dead.

*The Obituary Writer of Cedar Falls* blends the atmospheric grit of small‑town noir with a relentless, page‑turning mystery. If you’ve ever wondered what lies behind the polite platitudes of an obituary, step inside Nora’s world—and discover that sometimes the deadliest stories are the ones we’re told to forget.