Fiona Lychenko, now a woman in her late sixties, has spent
years researching the death of her high school classmate Zara Stanley, who was brutally murdered at the age of twenty. Determined to solve the crime, something the police weren’t able to do, Fiona interviewed everyone she could in her hometown of
Ripley, but every trail led to the same dead end. She even published
her findings in a book, hoping it would lead to anonymous clues
from readers and outliers, and still, nothing. Now, a decade later,
Fiona has finally given up hope that the killer would ever be caught.That is until a brown manila envelope turns up under her door and
Fiona once again finds herself embroiled in the midst of a controversy
so intricate and tangled that one wrong move could be her undoing.Inspired by the unsolved murder of a young girl in
1962 in Saskatoon, Zara’s Dead is the fictional retelling of a very real story, one that has captivated the public and eluded answers for decades.