Yessenia Gutierrez – författare

Detective Isabel Green has built a life that looks perfect from the outside. She has a loving husband, a bright young son, and a career she fought hard to earn. But when a murdered girl appears in Isabel's kitchen hours after her death, the fragile balance of her world shatters.As Isabel investigates the brutal killing of fifteen‑year‑old Lisa Cooper, she's forced to confront the darkest corners of her own past that she's spent years trying to bury. The details of Lisa's murder mirror the trauma Isabel survived as a teenager, and the deeper she digs, the more she realizes the cases may be connected. Someone is stalking young girls. Someone who has done this before.With her son seeing things he shouldn't, her husband growing more distant, and her own sanity slipping, Isabel races to uncover the truth. But the closer she gets, the more she realizes the real danger may be hiding inside the people she trusts most.A blend of psychological suspense, crime investigation, and supernatural mystery, The Secret That Hides Beneath shows readers a chilling truth. Some secrets refuse to stay buried.

This novel is about a psychiatrist, Jason Wallace, who becomes enraged upon discovering his wife Lisa's infidelity. Unable to cope with the affair, he develops a dreadful plan to get rid of her. He takes advantage of a patient, Josh Wit, who is diagnosed with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) to carry out his scheme. Jason becomes the prime suspect in the mysterious murder but ultimately pleads not guilty. All of the evidence, however, points at this vulnerable man struggling to gain control of his mental health condition.