The Mercy Hour

A driven young grad student begins using her true crime podcast to help save her missing best friend, and she soon finds herself leading a small team of crime solvers to uncover local truths that are eluding the police.

When true crime podcaster Mercy St. Claire's best friend Alice gets kidnapped, it plunges her into the terrible realities of cold cases in a broken America. She turns to her beloved professor, retired criminalist Mark Thoreau, to try and find Alice, but grief, passion, and a descending darkness of terrible truths push them to take comfort in each other while killers go free. Nobody has answers.

True crime social media sensations and citizen sleuths Mercy St. Claire and Chizzy Williams are working themselves sick trying to solve DC's numerous cold cases. Meanwhile, retired criminalist Mark Thoreau is nursing a broken heart and a bottle of bourbon, and local reporter Tohru Iwasaki is serving as the inspiration for a mystery novel.

As Mercy, Mark, and Tohru cope with the devastating aftermath of a drunken car crash, it becomes clearer and clearer that things can't continue as they are. Before they have a chance to set the world right again, however, women begin dropping dead around them in rapid succession, and the only connection between those women seems to be their involvement in Mercy's recent investigations.