Publication Date: March 3, 2025
The message has disappeared. So has my best friend.
When I read the message from my best friend Leona, I sense the danger screaming from every word.
Can’t speak. Don’t text or call. Please just come.
I race to her house, thinking about the circle of bruises I saw on her wrist days earlier. But when she opens the door, Leona is smiling, her husband’s arm tightly around her narrow shoulders, her little girl’s laughter echoing from the living room.
She says she never sent me a message and she’s fine. And when I look at my phone, the message is deleted.
But six hours later, the police are at my door. Leona and her family have disappeared, their dinner burned, blood all over the kitchen.
My best friend and her beautiful family are missing. I was the last one to see them alive…
A completely gripping and addictive thriller from the number 1 ebook bestselling author K.L. Slater, Message Deleted will have you glued to the pages until the very last twist. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and Freida McFadden.
Saffy Morris is trying to claw her way out of the desolate pit of despair, resulting in losing custody of her son. When she receives three ominous text messages from her best friend, Saffy can feel the danger.
However, there’s a twist. When the messages suddenly disappear, Saffy starts to spiral and immediately panics.
Author K.L. Slater serves up a psychological thriller full of red herrings in Message Deleted. Six hours after visiting her friend (who denies sending the message), the police arrive to question Saffy about Leona and her family, all of whom have disappeared.
Saffy is clearly hiding something, which increases the level of suspense. Her character is written to depict someone trying to overcome delusions and self-doubt. Readers will empathize with her efforts to convince her ex-husband to allow visits with their son.
Message Deleted offers an unpredictable psychological thriller that will keep your attention from start to finish.
K.L. SLATER is the million-copy bestselling author of nine psychological crime thrillers. For many years, Kim sent her work out to literary agents and collected quite a stack of rejection slips. At the age of 40, she went back to Nottingham Trent University and earned an MA in creative writing with distinction. Now Kim is a full-time writer and lives in Nottingham with her husband.
