Out of Frame Hardcover – March 18, 2026

A Meticulous Thriller of Symmetry, Shadow, and the Architecture of AbsenceMarcus Dufrett is a man who lives by the mathematics of order. To the world, he is a grieving widower, still setting a place at the dinner table for a wife who vanished two years ago. But behind the closed doors of his perfectly curated life, Marcus is an "architect of absence"—a master of manipulation who views human emotion as a variable to be controlled and crime as a canvas to be painted.When the Villanueva family is found decimated in a scene of calculated tragedy, Marcus has already ensured the evidence points exactly where he wants it to. He doesn't just commit crimes; he stages narratives, using scents, shadows, and psychological cues to rewrite reality for the investigators left in his wake.However, the arrival of Detective Angela Carrillo threatens the perfect geometry of his world. Sharp, instinctive, and unimpressed by Marcus’s polished facade, Carrillo begins to pull at the threads of a case that feels too perfect to be true. As she delves deeper, she finds herself drawn into a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse where the hunter and the hunted are separated only by a blur of light and a well-placed lie.From the sterile silence of a modern home to the oppressive humidity of the Everglades, Out of Frame is a chilling psychological portrait of a man who believes he can calculate his way out of the human condition.In a world where every detail is staged, can one detective find the crack in the frame before the pattern is complete? Read more