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Elise Crowe

Elise Crowe writes psychological thrillers about secrets, guilt, ambition, and the dangerous stories people tell to protect themselves. Her novels place ordinary people in extraordinary situations where the truth is rarely as simple as it first appears. Drawn to morally complex characters, buried histories, and slow-burning tension, Crowe explores what happens when carefully constructed lives begin to unravel. She is the author of She Knew the Password, The Next Obituary, The Woman on the Seventh Floor, The Woman in the Firebreak, The Seventh Course, and other psychological thrillers.

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Cover of THE NEXT OBITUARY

Obituary writer Owen Pike is used to writing about people after they die.

Then an obituary arrives for a woman who is still alive.

Her date of death is tomorrow.

The next morning, she is dead.

When another obituary arrives—this time giving its victim three days to live—Owen realizes he isn't dealing with predictions. Someone knows exactly when these people are going to die.

As he follows the trail through Charleston, every name leads him closer to an old lie someone has spent years protecting. And with each new obituary, the question becomes more dangerous:

Who gets the next one?

THE NEXT OBITUARY is a dark psychological mystery thriller about buried secrets, guilt, manipulation, and the terrifying difference between predicting a death and announcing it.

2026
Mystery & Thriller
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