Detective Diana Crowe has built a career on reading the space between what people say and what actually happened to them. It's made her good at her job. It's also made her impossible to lie to — which is a problem, because someone in this city has been getting away with murder for a very long time, and the system that's supposed to stop him keeps looking the other way.

When a young man is wrongly accused of a crime he didn't commit, Diana is the only one willing to ask the question everyone else has stopped asking: if it wasn't him, then who? The trail leads her somewhere the department doesn't want to go — toward a man who has learned exactly how far he can go before anyone with the power to stop him actually will.

Diana has spent her whole career believing in the process. In evidence, in patience, in the slow grinding machinery of justice that gets there eventually, even when eventually costs more than it should. But as the case closes in and the system fails, again, in exactly the ways she's always trusted it not to — she starts asking a different question. Not how do I catch him.

How far am I willing to go.

Somewhere above her, a single crow watches from the wire, waiting to see what she decides.

One for Sorrow is the first book in the Murder of Crowes series — a slow-burn psychological suspense novel about grief, justice, and the terrible clarity of a choice made once and carried forever.