The Confession Artist

An unidentified sketch of a person’s face appears online with a message saying they have six days to confess or die. At the end of the week, someone who looks like the person in the sketch is murdered. When it happens a second time, the media dubs the killer “The Confession Artist.” The latest sketch looks an awful lot like cop-turned-PI Crosbie Mitchell, who lives and works in a small Montana town. The FBI believes it’s Mitchell, and if she’s being honest, Mitchell believes that too. But what secret does she have to confess, and how devastating is what she’s hiding?  While other people post confessions on social media, worrying it might be them, Mitchell tries to track down the killer before she’s forced to reveal all. Carbo brings Montana’s landscape and small-town dynamics to life in this gripping page-turner. The mystery of the sketches and whether or not it’s Mitchell in the latest one keeps the intrigue going up to the very end. This is a book you will want to confess to reading.—Jeff Ayers