Dead Calm: A Detective Devin Thriller

By Ann Mouse

DEAD CALM

The lake doesn't give up its secrets easily. But Detective Devin Cole always finds a way.

When a woman's body surfaces at dawn off the shores of Heartland Lake, Detective Devin Cole has barely had time to finish his coffee.

The victim is Elise Drummond - a Chicago architect with no reason to be at the lake. No signs of struggle. No obvious cause of death. Just an expression of impossible calm, and a man named Bryce Weston whose private dock sits two hundred yards away.

Devin left Chicago to escape cases like this. Cases with faces and families and questions that follow you home. But as he digs into Elise's final days, what begins as a straightforward homicide investigation unravels into something far more dangerous - a decades-long money laundering conspiracy, a hidden basement that was never supposed to be found, and a federal judge whose job is to make sure it stays that way.

Someone with power killed Elise Drummond. And that same power is watching Devin now.

In Heartland Lake, the water looks peaceful. But the deeper you go, the colder it gets.

Dead Calm is the first book in the Detective Devin series - a propulsive, twisty crime thriller for fans of fast-paced mysteries with unforgettable characters.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQ2WMMFL
• ISBN13: 9798249636180
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 7.8"