A dying mob cleaner.
A black leather ledger filled with names.
And one detective who discovers her own family written inside.

When NYPD detective Eva Lucente is led to the hidden cabin of notorious mafia cleaner Vic Sabella, she expects a confession. Instead, he leaves her a ledger—each page signed by the very people he erased. Teachers, priests, children, cops. Names stolen not only by violence, but by silence. Among them, Eva finds her mother’s name.

Drawn into a decades-long conspiracy of power and erasure, Eva must decide whether unearthing the truth will heal a city—or destroy what remains of her family.

Told across interwoven timelines, The River of Stolen Names blends noir crime fiction with haunting psychological depth. It is a story about memory, justice, and what it costs to remember when forgetting is safer.

Perfect for fans of Don DeLillo, James Ellroy, and Tana French, this novel is both a gripping mystery and a meditation on the power of names, identity, and resistance against institutional silence.

Some names die fast. Others drown slow. But all of them float, eventually.