The Confessor: A Logan Hollister Novel <— TODAY’S BOOK HIGHLIGHT FEATURES THIS VIGILANTE THRILLER (and you guys KNOW how much I love a good vigilante!!) Ohhhh those always keep me on the edge of my seat, so I’m so excited to learn about this one. And to celebrate this recent release, the author is today’s newsletter sponsor.
The Confessions Are Real. The Victims Have Nothing Else in Common.
So what’s it about?
A killer is making Los Angeles confess.
The Confessor is never wrong. He has built his whole life around being sure of it.
He chooses people who got away with it — never charged, never even suspected. The charity director who gutted his own foundation. The smiling influencer who built an empire on a lie.
He sits them down alone with a pen and a yellow legal pad, and waits as long as it takes for the truth in their own hand.
Then he balances the account.
The confessions are real. But on paper, nothing connects the victims — separate lives, separate crimes, no thread that should tie one death to the next…
INTRO TO THE BOOK & SERIES:
Los Angeles is built for reinvention. A new name. A better address. A carefully edited past.
Someone has decided the past should not stay buried.
The victims in *The Confessor* have one thing in common: each escaped justice for a serious crime. Before dying, each is forced to write the truth by hand on a yellow legal pad. The confessions check out. The bodies do not.
LAPD homicide detective Logan Hollister must find the hidden line connecting strangers who were never arrested, never prosecuted, and in some cases never suspected. The deeper he goes, the more unsettling the case becomes. The killer is not guessing. He knows.
And across Los Angeles, people are beginning to wonder whether stopping him is justice—or merely the law protecting those it failed to catch.
*The Confessor* opens the Logan Hollister series with a complete first case: a dark psychological crime thriller about buried guilt, public sympathy, and the moment certainty turns into permission to kill.
FIVE FACTS ABOUT THE CONFESSOR
**1. Every victim leaves behind a handwritten confession.**
The details are specific, verifiable, and tied to crimes that escaped the police.
**2. The killer does not choose at random.**
He targets people who avoided justice and calls each murder a settled account.
**3. The victims should not connect.**
They come from different worlds, with different secrets, and no obvious reason one person should know the truth about all of them.
**4. Logan Hollister could walk away from the LAPD—but he cannot leave this case alone.**
Money is not keeping him on the job. An impossible string of verifiable confessions is.
**5. The first case ends in this book.**
*The Confessor* is Book One of the Logan Hollister series, but the central investigation reaches a full conclusion.
He only kills people who escaped justice. Detective Logan Hollister still has to stop him.
EXCERPT FROM CHAPTER ONE
Nobody called him The Confessor yet. That would come later, after the police found the pattern and the media found the name. For now, he was just a man standing near a window with the blinds drawn, laying down the next card.
“October 14. Check number 4471. $62,000 to Pacific Ridge Consulting for program evaluation and strategic planning.” He paused. “Pacific Ridge Consulting has never evaluated a program or planned a strategy in its life. Pacific Ridge Consulting is a shell company owned by Coastal Venture Holdings, LLC.” Another pause. “Coastal Venture Holdings has one member. You.”
David Kirsch didn’t say anything. His hands were flat on the desk, pressing down, as if the surface might hold him in place. He’d been behind that desk for forty minutes now—still wearing the white button-down from tonight’s donor dinner, the collar dark with sweat, his blue blazer draped over his chair. His silver hair, always camera-ready, had been raked through more than once. The practiced face—the warm eyes, the fundraiser smile—was all gone. What was underneath it looked older and smaller. Not much to look at, once you peeled the label off.
The desk lamp threw a circle of warm light across the office and caught the edge of a framed photograph: Kirsch shaking hands with the mayor at last year’s Veterans’ Day gala. Beyond the light, shadow. Plaques on the walls. Commendations. The kind of awards they give out at luncheons where everybody claps and nobody checks the math. Half the frames were crooked. The building was empty, the HVAC off, and the silence had a weight to it—the particular quiet of a place built for daytime noise that now had none.
“November 9. Another check. $41,000. This one to Meridian Group Advisors—community impact assessment.” The Confessor watched Kirsch’s face. “Meridian Group Advisors has never assessed anything. Same ownership chain. Same destination. You used different company names because you thought it would look less obvious than repeat payments to the same vendor.” He let that sit. “Your controller processes sixty invoices a month at a foundation that practically runs itself. She doesn’t check. She’s never had a reason to. You knew that when you hired her.”
Kirsch’s jaw tightened, but his eyes stayed on the desk.
MOOD PLAYLIST
**After Dark in Los Angeles**
1. “Nightcall” — Kavinsky
2. “Red Right Hand” — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3. “You Want It Darker” — Leonard Cohen
4. “Teardrop” — Massive Attack
5. “The Man Comes Around” — Johnny Cash
6. “Angel” — Massive Attack
7. “In the Air Tonight” — Phil Collins
8. “Los Angeles” — The Midnight
Los Angeles is beginning to sympathize with a serial killer. Logan Hollister is running out of time to prove that being right does not make murder justice.
AUTHOR BIO
Noah Christopher writes dark crime fiction about hidden motives, moral pressure, and the choices people make when the law is no longer enough. *The Confessor* is his debut novel and the first case in the Logan Hollister series. He is currently writing Logan’s next investigation.
BOOK DETAILS
– **Title:** *The Confessor*
– **Author:** Noah Christopher
– **Series:** Logan Hollister, Book One
– **Genres:** Crime thriller, psychological thriller, detective fiction, Los Angeles noir
– **Length:** 414 pages
– **Published:** July 4, 2026
– **Formats:** Kindle, paperback, and hardcover
– **Story promise:** A complete first investigation with a resolved central case
– **Content note:** Murder, captivity, coercion, serial-killer activity, and crime-scene descriptions without prolonged graphic gore
LINKS
Primary purchase link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7L91BF4
Goodreads:** https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254943766-the-confessor
The Confessor: A Logan Hollister Novel
