End of Story; A Novel

A Spellbinding Thriller for Fans of Knives Out

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Woman in the Window comes a gripping mystery full of secrets, deception, and unexpected twists.

“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.”

This is the invitation that reclusive mystery novelist Sebastian Trapp extends to Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction and his longtime correspondent. With only months to live, Trapp asks Nicky to stay in his grand San Francisco mansion to help write his life story—alongside his enigmatic second wife, Diana; his reckless nephew, Freddy; and his fiercely loyal daughter, Madeleine.

“You and I might even solve an old mystery or two.”

Two decades earlier, on New Year’s Eve 1999, Trapp’s first wife and teenage son vanished without a trace. Was the master of mystery responsible for the perfect crime? And why, after years of seclusion, has he suddenly invited an outsider to dig into his past?

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

As Nicky pieces together Trapp’s past, she finds herself drawn deeper into a puzzle more sinister than she imagined. Meanwhile, Madeleine begins to question whether her beloved father knows more than he claims. But when a body surfaces in the estate’s koi pond, both women realize the past isn’t buried—it’s just been waiting.