Description
Five victims. Five Chicago neighborhoods. One disconnected number they all called minutes before dying.
Detective Kim Moore and her partner, Gary Hernandez, have faced impossible crimes before—but never a killer who can make the dead speak. Each victim received a call from a voice they trusted, confessed to a secret they had carried for years, and followed an instruction that ended in death.
The number should not exist. Its final four digits—0217—lead Kim back to Halcyon, a buried behavioral experiment connected to her own childhood, her missing mother, and the father who concealed the truth. As more people across the city begin receiving calls from voices they mourn, Kim discovers that the first five deaths were only a test. At 2:17, the real command will be sent.
To stop it, Kim must untangle authentic memory from manufactured guilt and confront the architect who has studied her family for decades. But the closer she gets to the caller, the more personal every choice becomes—and this time, answering may cost the lives of everyone she has left.
The Last Call at 2:17 is a tense, twist-driven police procedural and psychological crime thriller about grief, obedience, corruption, and the dangerous power of a familiar voice.
