New Witty, Gritty thriller!

SAFE TO ASSUME BY JC FULLER

72 hours after a first date ends badly, your date shows up on the news as a missing woman. Not only missing, but the suspected victim of a serial killer.

The police, of course, point fingers at you since you were the last person to see her alive...it's only to be expected.

However, when a leader to a group of armchair detectives becomes convinced YOU are the serial killer, they start to go to great lengths to prove it.

Their efforts to unmask you, if you are innocent man, would be torture...but if you're guilty? Dangerous.#thriller #booktokfyp #thrillers #wittygrittythriller

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2025/5/7 Edited to

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