Cruce

by Meredith Doench

La agente Luce Hansen regresa a su hogar en Willow's Ridge para atrapar a un asesino en serie que ha estado asesinando a mujeres jóvenes. Es el caso que ha estado esperando, el caso que la obliga a regresar al pequeño pueblo que abandonó hace diecinueve años, el caso que planea aprovechar para dar el salto desde la Oficina de Investigación Criminal de Ohio hasta el FBI.



Un caso por el que vale la pena arriesgar su inestable relación con su pareja, Rowan. Pero los horrores del caso traen a la memoria el asesinato sin resolver de la primera novia de Luce, y esta se ve obligada a enfrentarse al ministerio de conversión local que atormentó su juventud. Cuando el pasado se cruza con el presente, ¿perderá Luce todo lo que tanto le ha costado construir?

390 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 21, 2026

About the author

Meredith Doench is the author of the Luce Hansen LGBTQ Thriller series. These crime novels follow the work of Special Agent Luce Hansen of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation who specializes in tracking serial killers. Crossed, the first in the series, won Silver in the 2015 IndieFab Awards in the mystery genre. In 2017, Crossed was awarded the Mary Dasher Award for fiction from the College English Association of Ohio. The second novel, Forsaken Trust, was published in 2017 followed by Deadeye in 2019. All were mystery/thriller Goldie Award finalists in their respective years from Golden Crown Literary Society. Whereabouts Unknown, Doench’s fourth thriller and stand-alone novel, was published in 2022.

Doench’s works of short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in literary journals such as Hayden’s Ferry Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and The Tahoma Literary Review. She was one of the founding associate prose editors of the literary journal Camera Obscura: Journal of Literature and Photography and currently serves on the board of Mystery Writers of America, Midwest Chapter. She is a senior lecturer of creative writing, literature, and composition at the University of Dayton in Ohio.

Learn more about Meredith at www.meredithdoench.com