Jessica Moor Books in Order

Police regard Katie Straw's death as suicide after her body is recovered from the river. Women at the domestic violence shelter where she worked insist she was murdered, forcing an examination of her past and whose testimony receives belief.

Isolated during the pandemic, retired nurse Annie revisits years spent obeying troubling hospital rules and later sheltering men during the AIDS crisis. A phone call draws her into memories of complicity and betrayal, raising difficult questions about possible atonement.