He’s not just solving murders. He’s solving revisions. Frank Mercer knows he’s a character in a detective story, and he’s built a career on cracking cases even when the author changes the facts mid-chapter. But when a self-aware enemy starts deleting a missing day to rewrite an alibi—and to funnel the plot into a cheap, forgettable twist—Frank realizes the real battle isn’t in the streets. It’s on the page. With evidence fading and memory slipping, he must plant truth inside the scene, derail the bad ending, and prove that even fiction can’t erase a stubborn detective for long.