Meredith Doench’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in literary journals such as Hayden's Ferry Review, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Gertrude. She earned a Ph.D. in creative writing from Texas Tech University and served as a fiction editor at Camera Obscura: Journal of Literature and Photography. She teaches writing and literature at a university in southern Ohio. Crossed is her first novel.
While homicide detective Theodora Madsen recovers from a potentially career-ending injury, she scrambles to solve the cases of two missing sixteen-year-old girls from Ohio.
Stranded while hunting the serial predator Deadeye, Special Agent Luce Hansen fights for survival while her lover, forensic pathologist Harper Bennett, hunts for clues to Hansen’s disappearance along the killer’s trail.
Agent Luce Hansen returns home to Willow’s Ridge to catch a serial killer who has been murdering young women. It’s the case she’s been waiting for, the case that compels her to return to the small town she turned her back on nineteen years ago, the case she plans to ride from the Ohio BCI all the way to the FBI.