Their friendship would kill her… Weaver and fiber artist Edith “Pen” Meyer knew her friend Sandy Merritt’s relationship with a married man was wrong. She had even urged Sandy to take out a restraining order against Kenneth Carpenter. Which was why her call to Sandy on February 23, 2005, seemed to come from out of the blue. During it, she told Sandy to drop the restraining order and get back together with Ken. Pen was never seen again. One man stood to gain from Pen’s disappearance: Ken Carpenter. But evidence was bleak: no blood, no DNA, no body. Until detectives found notes hidden beneath a leather chair that turned out to be a playbook for murder… INCLUDES PHOTOS "Flynn and Lavoie wrote Notes on a Killing as a stirring pastiche of the true-crime genre...The frost-heave complications of this conniving case get smooth-road writing by the diligent authors...a plenty good home-town page-turner." Keene Sentinel "Their book follows the gritty (but not gory) details in the case, and despite its factual nature, the book reads like a novel." - Hippo Press "An opus...It's amazing these events happened in a sleepy little Granite State town." Springfield Republican "Harrowing and haunting, Notes on a Killing will have you in its grip. As they proved with Our Little Secret, Kevin Flynn and Rebecca Lavoie illuminate the darkest corners, offering a story not only filled with twists and suspense but is also rich with heartbreak and humanity." Megan Abbott, Edgar-winning author of The End of Everything and Dare Me . "With their usual narrative panache and an amazing instinct for the dramatic juxtaposition of incongruous lives, the authors have once again nailed a harrowing, larger-than-life conundrum that is too strangely wonderful for fiction and is the quintessential true crime yarn." Joseph Olshan, author of Cloudland. " Notes on a Killing offers fast pacing, suspense, meticulous research, and much more. The many faces of Betrayal form an overlay that will keep readers turning the pages of this engaging and satisfying crime novel." Phyllis Gobbell - author of A Season of Darkness "Kevin Flynn and Rebecca Lavoie's Notes on a Killing is an exemplary character driven true crime thriller that is as crafty and cunning as the killer himself." Burl Barer, author of Body Count " Notes on a Killing certainly won't disappoint devotees of its genre. But among the surprises between its covers - and there are plenty... - are the richly developed characters and, dare we say, artful passages of writing." Concord Monitor "I was still glued to the pages, and I couldn't turn them fast enough. That's how harrowing a story this is.." Nashua Telegraph " It's intriguing. It's heartbreaking. It's a crime story laced with sentiments of love, triumph, and loyalty among friends. To sum it up, it's a fantastic story you simply don't want to miss." True Crime Zine Thanks for supporting true crime authors and the booksellers who support them. As a radio and TV journalist, Kevin Flynn has won more than fifty broadcast awards, including an Emmy, four Edward R. Murrow awards, and three New Hampshire Magazine ’s Best TV Reporter awards. Currently, Flynn writes for several magazines and works as communications director for the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority. Rebecca Lavoie is the producer of “Word of Mouth,” a daily magazine program produced by New Hampshire Public Radio. A sought-after voice among many New Hampshire publications, Lavoie has written for New Hampshire Magazine and the Concord Monitor , as well as Newsweek and Playboy magazines.