Letters From a Killer

What if the man you were taught to forget was the only one who could explain who you really are?
When Henry Wilkins discovers a shoebox of unopened letters in his late mother’s attic, he unearths a truth buried for over thirty years: his father, Wilbur, didn’t die when Henry was a child—he was imprisoned for double murder. The family never spoke his name. Until now.
Each letter in the box is a story—written from a prison cell, addressed to Henry’s mother, and soaked in memory, confession, madness, and silence. As Henry reads, what begins as morbid curiosity becomes an emotional reckoning. Wilbur is no longer a ghost. He is a man, broken and brutal, shaped by violence, faith, and the crushing weight of love.
But as Henry uncovers the darkest secrets behind his sister Emily’s death, his own life begins to unravel. And the question becomes not just who was his father—but how much of him still lives in Henry?
Raw, lyrical, and profoundly unsettling, Letters from a Killer is a novel about truth, legacy, and the price of remembering.