PSYCHOSISA Detective Hale ThrillerThe dead don't lie. But the living don't always know what's real.When a disturbing murder draws Detective Eric Hale into another investigation, the evidence seems straightforward, until another body appears.Then another.Across British Columbia's Fraser Valley, victims are being discovered in different communities, forcing investigators to look beyond jurisdictional boundaries for a connection no one can yet explain. The crimes share unsettling similarities, but every answer seems to uncover another contradiction.As Hale and Detective Erin Walsh work alongside investigators across the region, a fragmented trail begins to emerge-one built from forensic evidence, buried histories, overlooked details, and the increasingly troubling realization that someone may have been hiding in plain sight.But this investigation is about more than identifying a killer.It's about perception.Memory.Trauma.And what happens when the mind can no longer be trusted to separate what is real from what only feels real.As the evidence closes in, Hale must rely on the one thing that cannot be frightened, manipulated, or confused: the truth left behind.PSYCHOSIS is the second novel in John Douglas Pritchard's Detective Hale Series, following Bad Review, a psychological crime thriller about the fragile boundary between perception and reality, and the evidence that remains when everything else becomes uncertain.