Pink Rose Killer: Braysville Files: "In Braysville Secrets Bloom and Blood Still Water The Roots."

by Dominique Christina

The truth is blood-deep.

After the shocking revelations of Book 1, Braysville is unraveling. Detective Jonathan Rivera is haunted by his past, and Layla is no longer hiding who she really is. But she’s not the only one.

A second killer has emerged—one who knows the original Pink Rose Killer intimately. When another body surfaces with petals at the scene, Braysville is thrown into chaos.

As Layla tries to protect her family and uncover the mastermind pulling the strings, secrets from her father’s past, a mysterious hitman, and a hidden network of accomplices begin to rise to the surface.

Book 2 peels back the rot beneath the town’s beauty, where bloodlines tie everyone to something dangerous.

🌹 Twisted loyalties. Shattered truths. A killer legacy no one escapes.

86 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 5, 2025

About the author

is an award-winning poet, author, educator, and activist. She holds five national poetry slam titles in four years, including the 2014 & 2012 Women of the World Slam Champion and 2011 National Poetry Slam Champion. Her work is greatly influenced by her family's legacy in the Civil Rights Movement and by the idea that worlds make worlds. Her poetry collections: The Bones, The Breaking, The Balm: A Colored Girl's Hymnal, published by Penmanship Books, and They Are All Me, published by Swimming With Elephants Publishing are available now. Her third book, This Is Woman's Work, is set for publication by Sounds True Publishing in October 2015.

Reviews

[Maya Mckenzie · Rating 4 out of 5]

So all along it was Johnathan father and Layla’s father that was killing those women in the 90s. It’s crazy how the second killer is Layla’s brother, and they have another sister!