Echoes of Truth

A Jake Scott Mystery: Book 5

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Crime Thriller, Male Protagonist, Police Procedural, Amateur Sleuths, Whodunnit, Murder Mystery, Crime Mystery, and Novels

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Death and Violence

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Oct 15, 2026

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A Jake Scott Mystery: Book 5

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Blurb

Her mind buried the horror. Her art brings the killer back.

A decades-old double homicide erupts back to life when a haunting painting surfaces. It’s an image that could only have been created by someone who witnessed the Halloween night murders. The shock is immediate and devastating: the artist is the victims’ daughter, and she remembers nothing. Not the murders. Not painting the scene. Not the terror she should carry.

Jake Scott, never able to resist a mystery, muscles his way into the investigation, much to the concern of his homicide detective girlfriend. But the case stalls quickly, threatening to sink back into cold-case oblivion.

Then a second painting appears.

This one is even more revealing, pointing to a hidden location… and a predator who’s been waiting in the shadows. As Jake closes in, he’s thrust into a race against a killer desperate to extract long-buried secrets from the artist, unless Jake can uncover the truth first.

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Genres

Crime Thriller, Male Protagonist, Police Procedural, Amateur Sleuths, Whodunnit, Murder Mystery, Crime Mystery, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Death and Violence

Type of Ending

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Series

A Jake Scott Mystery — Book 5

Series Read Order

Reading prior books is not required

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Publication Date

Oct 15, 2026

Page Length

334 pages

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Author

Barry Finlay is a fiction and non-fiction author. In his previous life, he had an extensive career in financial management before retiring in 2004 after thirty two years with the Canadian federal government. Since retiring, he has divided his time between writing, working as a consultant on financial policy matters, travel, playing golf, climbing mountains, philanthropy and enjoying his three grandchildren.

His contemporary political thriller, Remote Access, was released in 2018 and has received acclaim from a variety of reviewers. In 2019, he released a novella called Never So Alone, which expands on the background of one of his central characters. His next in the series, The Burden of Darkness, was released in 2020. He launched The Jake Scott Mystery Series with the first book, Searching For Truth, in 2021.

Barry is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee medal for philanthropy.