The Eighth Black Letter

AT 8:13, RAVENSCOURT UNIVERSITY ERASES MARA VANE.

Her grades are still there.
Her fees are paid.
Her records still exist.

But according to the university, she is no longer an active student.

Less than an hour later, an eighth black letter arrives.

It carries a message from a mystery Ravenscourt buried years ago:

THE ARCHIVE KEPT ONE MORE.
FIND THE NAME THEY REMOVED.
F. ASH.

When retired registrar Evelyn Rook agrees to explain what happened to the missing student, Mara reaches the Old Registry too late.

Rook is dead.

Beside her lies a handwritten confession:

I ERASED F. ASH.

The case appears simple.

It isn't.

To uncover the truth, Mara must reconstruct a vanished student's life from altered registers, old photographs, confidential files, handwritten confessions and an access log that appears to place a suspect at the murder scene.

But Ravenscourt has taught her one dangerous lesson:

A record can be accurate and still tell a lie.

Someone knows how to turn incomplete facts into convincing stories.

Someone has already done it once.

And this time, a woman is dead.

THE EIGHTH BLACK LETTER is Book 2 in THE BLACK LETTER FILES, an evidence-driven psychological mystery series where the reader sees the clues, tests the theories and has the chance to solve the case before Mara does.

That doesn't mean the story is true.**

Could you solve it before Mara?