The Quiet Girl (The Mike Dorset Thrillers)

By Evan J Cross

Ellie Dorset notices Willa Beltran before the adults do.

Willa is the quiet girl at school. The one who waits too carefully, asks for too little, and watches grown-ups the way other children watch traffic. When Willa's mother, Monica, is found dead from an apparent overdose, most of the block is ready to call it one more sad, predictable ending.

Ellie is not.

She asks Mike Dorset to help because her friend has no one else willing to push past the easy story. What begins as one mother's death widens into a local trafficking lane built around familiar dealers, borrowed apartments, intimidated mothers, and children trained to disappear in plain sight. With Lena Ochoa building the lawful case and Soojin forcing Mike to face what the investigation costs at home, Mike has to break a neighborhood machine without turning Ellie into its target.

The local ring can be broken. The truth about Monica can be named.

But what survives in the evidence points south.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJ6WJ1K2
• ISBN13: 9798172894879
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"