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Her First Mistake
Kendra Elliot

Noelle Marshall #1
Montlake
June 2025
On Sale: June 10, 2025
Featuring: Derrick Bell; Noelle
347 pages
ISBN: 1662525753
EAN: 9781662525759
Kindle: B0D31ZRV7X
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Mystery Police Procedural | Women's Fiction Psychological

When a very personal cold case murder is reopened, a detective’s secrets come to light in a novel of shocking twists and suspense by a Wall Street Journal bestselling author.

Thirteen years ago, Assemblyman Derrick Bell was murdered in his home by an intruder. His wife, Noelle Marshall, was left for dead. The crime was unsolved, but it wasn’t forgotten.

Today the FBI is tackling a fresh perspective on the case and looking to Noelle, now a detective for the Deschutes County sheriff’s office, for new clues. It is reopening everything Noelle thought was behind her. Memories of her escape from a traumatic childhood. A marriage that wasn’t the perfect love story she’d been promised. And a husband whose charm and privilege hid a dark side. But Noelle has been hiding something too: a secret about the night Derrick died that she has never told anyone.

As past and present and leads and misleads collide, one thing is frighteningly clear. Derrick’s murder wasn’t just unsolved. It’s unfinished. And only the truth—no matter the risk—can save the next victim.

Noelle Marshall

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Re: Her First Mistake

I like it
(Basketball Stars 5:31am June 13)

nice
(Marry Bell 1:49pm June 14)