Every path hides a truth.Some truths refuse to stay buried.
A crime novel of suspicion, hidden motives, and the long road back to what actually happened. Inspired by real events.
Treacherous Path
Crime novel · Psychological thriller · A debut novel and the first in a series.
A woman vanishes without explanation.
A hunting party finds a severed finger in the forest, a gold ring still on it. The detective who takes the case believes he is investigating a murder. He is wrong.
As the search moves deeper into the Oak Ridge Mountains, the clues begin to contradict one another. Witnesses hold things back. Old loyalties outrank the truth. A respected physician, an estranged husband, and people with a great deal to lose form a puzzle whose pieces refuse to fit together.
Years later, the case is reopened, unearthing questions someone had good reason to bury.
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Where the story unfolds
No spoilers—only the places and details that ground the story.
- 1 · The setting
- An exclusive resort high in the Oak Ridge Mountains and the forest below it.
- 2 · The town
- Small enough that every loyalty in it is older than the case.
- 3 · The object
- A gold ring remains on the severed finger when a hunting party finds it in the forest.
George Kerpi
George Kerpi is a Georgian-American writer whose work explores truth, loyalty, sacrifice, identity, and the paths people take when life gives them no easy choices.
Born in the Republic of Georgia and now based in the United States, he writes about the space between what is seen and what is real, and about the people whose lives are changed permanently by a single act.
Treacherous Path is his first novel.
Truth does not expire.
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