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Briar Calloway #5
The Secret Dead
Briar Calloway’s best friend has been murdered. There’s just one problem—the body isn’t hers.
A woman is found laid out beneath flickering candles in an abandoned vault at Washington’s Congressional Cemetery. She has Taz O’Malley’s hair. Her tattoos. Her lip ring. Her driver’s license.
Even her face.
But FBI Agent Briar Calloway knows Taz better than anyone alive—and the killer made mistakes.
The dead woman is an elaborate copy.
Which means the real Taz is missing.
Inside Taz’s apartment, Briar finds a pool of blood and evidence that someone took her alive. Then the investigation uncovers something even another woman with the same impossible restraint wounds. A forgotten murder. A network of watchers obsessed with Briar’s infamous past. And a mysterious two-hour gap in the prison records of Adrian Calloway—Briar’s serial-killer ex-husband.
Someone has spent years preparing this.
Someone knows Briar intimately.
And as the bodies, clues, and carefully staged performances begin closing around her, Briar realizes this killer doesn’t simply want Taz dead.
They want Briar to watch.
And somewhere in the dark, her best friend may still be alive.
A woman is found laid out beneath flickering candles in an abandoned vault at Washington’s Congressional Cemetery. She has Taz O’Malley’s hair. Her tattoos. Her lip ring. Her driver’s license.
Even her face.
But FBI Agent Briar Calloway knows Taz better than anyone alive—and the killer made mistakes.
The dead woman is an elaborate copy.
Which means the real Taz is missing.
Inside Taz’s apartment, Briar finds a pool of blood and evidence that someone took her alive. Then the investigation uncovers something even another woman with the same impossible restraint wounds. A forgotten murder. A network of watchers obsessed with Briar’s infamous past. And a mysterious two-hour gap in the prison records of Adrian Calloway—Briar’s serial-killer ex-husband.
Someone has spent years preparing this.
Someone knows Briar intimately.
And as the bodies, clues, and carefully staged performances begin closing around her, Briar realizes this killer doesn’t simply want Taz dead.
They want Briar to watch.
And somewhere in the dark, her best friend may still be alive.
357 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 13, 2026
About the author
Georgia Wagner
100 books196 followersHaving worked on projects with New York Times Bestsellers and USA Today bestsellers, Georgia Wagner recently hit #1 bestseller with her newest series. Location and character are two big factors for Georgia, and getting those right allows the story to flow seamlessly onto the page. And flow it does, because Georgia is so prolific a new term is required to describe the rate at which nerve-tingling stories find their way into print.
When not found attached to a laptop, Georgia likes spending time in local arboretums, among the trees and ponds. An avid cultivator of orchids, begonias, and all things floral, Georgia also has a strong penchant for art, paintings, and sculptures. A many-decades-long passion for mystery novels and years of chess tournament experience makes Georgia the perfect person to pen the Artemis Blythe series. That's where it all started, but the drive to craft thrilling mystery tales soon demanded new characters in new locations.
Where will she take us next?
When not found attached to a laptop, Georgia likes spending time in local arboretums, among the trees and ponds. An avid cultivator of orchids, begonias, and all things floral, Georgia also has a strong penchant for art, paintings, and sculptures. A many-decades-long passion for mystery novels and years of chess tournament experience makes Georgia the perfect person to pen the Artemis Blythe series. That's where it all started, but the drive to craft thrilling mystery tales soon demanded new characters in new locations.
Where will she take us next?
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September 18, 2026
NOOOOOOO
Seriously!!!! How can you even end it that way and make your audiences wait 15 MONTHS for the end results!!!! Georgia!!!! You have us hanging in suspense with bated breath!!!
Seriously!!!! How can you even end it that way and make your audiences wait 15 MONTHS for the end results!!!! Georgia!!!! You have us hanging in suspense with bated breath!!!
September 20, 2026
Love this entire series!
Crying, laughing, thinking… all of these in all of these books. Don’t hesitate, just read!
I absolutely cannot wait for the next book.
Crying, laughing, thinking… all of these in all of these books. Don’t hesitate, just read!
I absolutely cannot wait for the next book.
September 30, 2026
Arghhh! That cliffhanger? And we have to wait until December 2027? Arghhh!
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