The Storm Reaper

About the Book

The Storm Reaper is Book One of the Violet Crisp series — an atmospheric crime thriller and police procedural set on Fire Island, New York, told in the wry first-person voice of the woman everyone wrote off. It is a twist-driven page-turner readers call “gripping” and “Unputdownable.”

When she was sixteen, Violet Crisp survived the storm that killed her best friend. The same night, she saw a man get murdered in the fog. The chief said she was confused by grief. Her own father said she was making it up. She spent the next ten years building a case no one believed.

Now she’s twenty-six, working as a police officer on Fire Island. A new chief is listening. Another storm is coming. Another body has washed up. And Violet realizes The Storm Reaper must be someone local — someone she may know.

A Slow-Burn Fire Island Crime Thriller Built on Real American Folklore

The Storm Reaper is Book One of the Violet Crisp series, an atmospheric crime thriller and police procedural set on a barrier island off the south shore of Long Island during hurricane season, told in the wry first-person voice of the woman everyone wrote off. It is built on the Gray Man, a real-life Atlantic-coast ghost folklore about a figure who appears before hurricanes to warn people to leave. Violet lives on a sailboat with her cat Purrmaid, the medical examiner’s mug reads “Cause of Death: Mondays,” and her ex works the register at the island’s only grocery store. She reads tides, currents and birds the way other detectives read case files.

What Readers Are Saying

Perfect for Readers Who Devour

• Atmospheric thrillers where the setting is a living, breathing force
• Female detectives nobody believes, who turn out to be right
• Hurricane-season suspense and closed-circle island mysteries
• Slow-burn crime fiction with real police procedural and forensic detail
• Cold cases in small towns where everyone knows everyone
• American folklore worked into a modern investigation

If you devour books by Lucy Foley, Riley Sager, Tana French or Ruth Ware, or anything in the Widow’s Bay / Jaws lane, The Storm Reaper is for you. And if you loved the tides-and-birds naturalism of Where the Crawdads Sing, you will feel at home on Fire Island.

Why Readers Loved It

• A gripping plot with twists readers “didn’t see coming”
• A flawed, compelling protagonist whose voice feels raw and real
• Fire Island rendered as a “living, breathing force”
• A narrator who reads tides, currents and birds the way other detectives read case files
• Book 1 of an ongoing series — readers said “I can’t wait to see what the next chapter brings…”