Dead Coordinates

A geocaching thriller about grief, obsession, and murder.

Find the coordinates. Locate the cache. Sign the logbook. Simple. Until someone starts leaving more than trinkets behind.

The geocache world is a hunting ground, victims are hidden for those who follow coordinates. When a cache leads to the discovery of a body, geocacher Erin Caldwell is pulled into a nightmare that spreads across forests, parks, and city streets.

Clues are hidden in plain sight. Coordinates, images, fragments of something larger, pulling the hunt deeper into the wilderness. Erin knows this world. She knows how cachers think, how they hide, how they search. What she doesn't understand is why the path feels familiar.

Detective Mara Vance knows patterns. It's her job to find them. This isn't random, it's designed. Someone is mapping a system, a progression, a message beyond murder.

As the distance between clues shrinks, Erin is pulled deeper into a game she no longer understands, set in motion long before the first body was found. Detective Mara Vance is trying to stop it. Erin is trying to survive it, and someone is stalking them both. This was never about the bodies, it was about who would follow the trail.

Dark, atmospheric, and grounded in the real-world geocache hobby, Dead Coordinates is a Pacific Northwest thriller about memory, guilt, survival, and the terrible cost of being found.