The Myth Maker

Someone is killing women and staging their bodies in strange, evocative scenes in this Greek-mythology-inspired serial killer thriller perfect, for fans of Alex Michaelides and Tana French.

Cassidy Cantwell has devoted her life to becoming a detective, never forgetting the cold case that has influenced her entire career: the unsolved murder of her best friend. Cassidy tries to balance her demanding job with her suffocatingly close-knit family and her increasingly clingy boyfriend, but when a strange new murder case comes across her desk, she's determined to solve it, especially when it turns out the victim was the wife of her college ex-boyfriend.

While Cassidy's partner, Bryan, works to prove that her ex is their suspect, Cassidy can't shake the feeling that there's something more to the case that they're not seeing. After the medical examiner finds a strange ring among the victim's personal effects that the husband insists didn't belong to his wife, Cassidy is struck by similarly odd details from a previous crime scene--details that seem to have an uncanny connection to a Greek myth.

When another body attracts public attention and the FBI joins the hunt, the case gets increasingly complicated-and solving it seems further and further out of reach. With anonymous taunts about her best friend's death dragging her attention away, Cassidy finds herself pulled in different directions-sacrifice her personal life for the sake of her career, or put everything she has into finding years-old answers to a case that haunts her still.

And the killer behind the murders isn't done yet.

Author: Alie Dumas Heidt
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Published: 07/08/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9798892421263


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2025 pg. 66
Booklist 06/25/2025

About the Author
Alie Dumas-Heidt lives in Puget Sound with her ​husband, adult kids, and two Goldendoodles - Astrid ​and Torvi. Growing up she wanted to be a detective ​and a writer and spent a few years working as a ​police dispatcher. Now, working is writing in her ​home office with the dogs at her feet. When she's not ​writing, she enjoys being in the forest, creating glass ​art and yarn crafts, and watching baseball.