Unintended Killer

In Trissa, New Mexico, a tourist town perched on tribal land and shadowed by the vast tailings of Truscott Mining, the death of college student Taylee Bishop exposes more than a crime.

Detective Alberto Cargile is called to unravel the case, but the suspects and witnesses are tangled in the town’s deepest divides: Christian Duchene, an unstable young man whose volatile charm masks darker impulses; a company guarding its secrets; a family fractured by grief and power. As Trissa erupts in Fourth of July festivities, Alberto must separate truth from lies while navigating corporate stonewalling, tribal resentment, and political maneuvering that threaten to bury the case before it reaches daylight.

Gripping and atmospheric, Unintended Killer is both a mystery and a portrait of a community at a crossroads — where loyalty and power collide, and one young woman’s death forces an entire town to confront the fractures it has long ignored.