We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow, but first, I wanted to make the exciting announcement that my newest novel, The Professor of Eventide, will be released on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. If you love literary Gothic mysteries, then The Professor of Eventide is for you.

Here’s the blurb:

Perfect for readers of The Secret History and Mexican Gothic. A haunting literary mystery that explores the thin line between intellectual obsession and madness.

At Eventide College, the past is never buried—it is exhaled through the ivy and etched into the stone.

Professor Jonathan Ferrars lives in the shadows of academia, a man tethered to a history he cannot outrun and a present he must make peace with. The sanctity of the autumn term is shattered when three of his students are found murdered in a manner that feels less like a crime and more like a ritual.

As the police circle and the college’s halls begin to close in, Jonathan realizes the deaths are part of a meticulously crafted architecture of guilt—one designed to make him the centerpiece of its tragedy. To preserve his sanity and his freedom, Jonathan must untangle the rot at the heart of Eventide College before the darkness he’s spent a lifetime avoiding finally claims him.

A story of isolation, the seduction of narrative, and the ghosts we carry with us.

Pre-order The Professor of Eventide here.

Thank you to those of you who have already signed up to be a part of the Professor of Eventide Street Team as early reviewers. If you’d like to be one of the first readers of The Professor of Eventide and receive an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) for review purposes, you can sign up here.

Set within the hallowed halls of Eventide College in coastal Maine, the story follows a professor whose life is shaped as much by what he teaches as by what he hides. It’s a story about guilt, knowledge, and memory. In the interest of full disclosure, you should know that The Professor of Eventide is a slow-burning mystery. There are no fast or easy answers here. It draws on the traditions of dark academia and literary suspense, and the story’s biggest influences were Donna Tartt’s The Secret History with a bit of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell thrown in for good measure. In many ways, The Professor of Eventide is a story about the cost of refusing to look at the truth that is standing right in front of you. FYI: This is a darker story than I usually write. I’ve written dark before, such as in Down Salem Way, but this is even darker than that. It’s a murder mystery after all, though the violence happens off stage.

I hope you’ll enjoy your walk through the halls of Eventide College. I’m so excited for everyone to read this book because it’s so different from anything I’ve written before.