When a whistleblower is murdered, Samantha Leary uncovers evidence connecting her death to a pharmaceutical company determined to protect its secrets.
Tag Archives: crime fiction
Some appointments can’t be avoided—The Appointment A Samantha Leary Short Story
A standalone short story in the Samantha Leary Psychological Thriller universe. A man stands over a body in a sealed apartment until a journalist arrives at the door, turning the aftermath into something neither of them fully understands.
Some Towns hide more than you think No One Tells It Twice Now Available
A tightly contained psychological thriller about a woman pulled into the unresolved murder of Meredith in the isolated town of Benson Falls, where silence, family secrets, and fractured truths keep the past sealed shut.
Some conversations can’t be avoided—The Conversation She couldn’t Avoid A Samantha Leary Short Story
A Samantha Leary short story about a party conversation that unravels into something deeper, where observation becomes investigation and nothing stays surface-level.
He Stole to Save His Son. Prison Was Only the Beginning—The Disappeared A Psychological Thriller Now Available
Jason steals from his company to pay for his son’s cancer treatment and is sentenced to prison. After release, he returns to a family and life that no longer fit who they became in his absence. A psychological thriller about consequence, incarceration, and fractured family ties.
The First Turn A Quiet Pressure Short
Experience the visceral weight of consequence in this exclusive short story. Step inside the intake center as a corporate life collapses into a sequence of digits. A raw view of containment, betrayal, and the quiet pressure of a father’s final lie.
Crime Time With Samantha Leary—The Shape of Control
A psychological look at digital control: how phone tracking became a form of containment in a domestic abuse case.
Behind the Door A Quiet Pressure Thriller Short
A psychological short story about Sarah, who discovers a disturbing connection between Daniel and Clara when a stranger appears, forcing her to confront hidden consequences in her own apartment.
Some cases don’t end quietly—they sit with you Samantha Leary Psychological Thrillers Volume 4
A mother is found dead under mysterious circumstances, and Samantha Leary is drawn into a case where nothing is as it seems. As she uncovers the truth, she exposes a life shaped by control, manipulation, and a man whose influence reaches further than anyone wants to believe. In this gripping Volume 4 of the Samantha Leary Psychological Thrillers series, justice and obsession begin to blur.
Tethered A Samantha Leary Short Story
Samantha Leary steps into a decaying trailer at the edge of Pleasant Falls, where peeling paint, stacked newspapers, and the sharp scent of metal and detergent frame Sandra’s grief. Her husband Tom is gone—yet the fear, the bruises, and the twisted dependence remain. Through trembling hands and flinches that betray deeper wounds, Samantha sees how deeply one man can tether a woman even in death. Survival, she knows, isn’t grand gestures. It begins with small, stubborn choices: one mug, one towel, one cleared corner at a time. Quiet, raw, and unflinching, “Tethered” explores the long shadow of abuse and the first fragile steps toward freedom.
The moment doesn’t end here.
It never does.
Samantha Leary Psychological Thrillers 
Begin the series with the prequel — available on Amazon.
We Are Wise Thinkers 