Thriller / Crime / Legal
In 1986, the quiet town of Bluesummer, Texas, was shattered by the crimes of an elusive serial killer known as The Songbird Strangler.
Four lifelong friends—Hayes Sheridan, Troy Terrell, Greer Collins, and Chantilly “Tilly” Price—planned one last unforgettable summer before college. Only three survived. Tilly became the killer’s fifth victim, and the evidence pointed to one of their own.
Thirty-five years later, Troy sits on death row while attorney Joaquin Ramos takes on his final appeal. What begins as a search for procedural errors soon uncovers evidence that Troy may be innocent—and that the real killer may still be hiding in plain sight.
As Greer begins investigating the past herself, she starts questioning everything she thought she knew, including her role in Troy’s conviction.
Shanessa Gluhm works as a librarian at an elementary school in New Mexico where she lives with her husband and children. It was during her own elementary days when a teacher encouraged Shanessa to share a story she wrote with the class. She hasn’t stopped writing since.
Her debut novel, Enemies of Doves, was an IAN Book of the Year Finalist in the category of first novel, an NIEA Finalist for cross-genre fiction, and first place winner in the Chanticleer Clue Awards for mystery, suspense, and thriller fiction. Her second novel, A River of Crows, also won first place in the Chanticleer Clue Awards.
When Shanessa is not writing, she enjoys birdwatching, reading, and true crime podcasts.
The Bone Nest is her third novel.