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Lenora Pike

Seattle, Washington

Trust no one. Especially the narrator.

Lenora Pike is a former investigative researcher who traded true-crime podcasts for fiction when she realized the stories she couldn't stop thinking about all ended with someone still alive—and someone who wished they weren't. She writes propulsive thrillers for readers who like their twists earned and their heroines impossible to kill off. Two Lenora Pike thrillers are live on Kindle.

Lenora's novels blend corporate conspiracies, missing persons, and ordinary women who discover they've been investigating the wrong crime all along. She is drawn to stories about identity under pressure, unreliable allies, and the moment a protagonist realizes the danger was inside the house—or inside the marriage—all along. Based in Seattle, Lenora walks the waterfront at dawn, keeps a shelf of spy novels with cracked spines, and has a strict rule: the twist must arrive one chapter before the reader sees it coming. Every book ends with truth on the table and someone still running.

Books

2 on Kindle · 8 coming soon. New Emberline titles release on Kindle about once a week—romance first, then mystery, thriller, women's fiction, and literary contemporary fiction.

Available on Kindle

Bad Evidence

A Legal Thriller

by Lenora Pike · Legal Thriller

A Houston lab tech notices one signature on a hundred DNA reports. One whistleblower against a machine built to close cases.

Forensic ErrorWrongful ConvictionWhistleblowerLegal

Before She Wakes

The fall was just the beginning

by Lenora Pike · Thriller

Her sister has been unconscious for forty days in Seattle. The husband knows things only a wife would—and won't leave the bedside.

ComaBedside VigilHidden MarriageSuspense

Coming soon

The Witness Was Lying

A Psychological Thriller

Coming soon on Kindle

by Lenora Pike · Psychological Thriller

The only eyewitness recants on the stand—then receives photos from the night of the murder. Chicago trial suspense with an unreliable witness at the center.

Unreliable WitnessTrialBuried PastTwist

Sleepwalker

A Domestic Thriller

Coming soon on Kindle

by Lenora Pike · Domestic Thriller

She wakes with dirt under her nails and a key that isn't hers. A Minneapolis marriage frays as missing hours stack up night after night.

Sleep DisordersMarriage in CrisisUnreliableDomestic

The Good Samaritan

Coming soon on Kindle

by Lenora Pike · Thriller

A rescuer becomes famous on a true-crime podcast—then the people he saved start dying. Denver fame, copycat terror, and a hero who can't prove he's not the threat.

True-Crime PodcastCopycatStalkerPropulsive

The Replacement

Coming soon on Kindle

by Lenora Pike · Thriller

HR says she's been on leave for three weeks. She hasn't left her San Francisco apartment. Identity, doppelgänger dread, and corporate espionage.

IdentityDoppelgängerCorporate EspionageParanoia

The Neighbor's Key

Coming soon on Kindle

by Lenora Pike · Thriller

A spare key appears under her Atlanta mat—then her alarm code changes itself. Suburban suspense when home stops being safe.

Suburban SuspenseHome InvasionSecretsDomestic

Hollow Point Trust

Coming soon on Kindle

by Lenora Pike · Thriller

Eight minutes between vault and highway in Phoenix; someone edited the manifest. Armored-truck heist, inside job, countdown clock.

HeistInside JobCountdownInvestigative

The Last Interview

Coming soon on Kindle

by Lenora Pike · Thriller

The final interview with a condemned man airs in an hour in New York. The producer is already dead. Live broadcast thriller with no retakes.

JournalistLive BroadcastSerial SubjectTwist

What She Buried

Coming soon on Kindle

by Lenora Pike · Thriller

Landscaping day in Portland unearths a locket—and the case file her mother marked closed. Mother, daughter, and a backyard cold case.

Cold CaseMother / DaughterBackyard DiscoverySecrets

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