Book Two of the Logan Hollister Series
Every murder is a performance.
Every move earns a grade.
He watched Logan hunt The Confessor. Now he is staging a case of his own—and marking the detective’s work in red ink.
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The premise
Four hundred witnesses.
One impossible murder.
At a black-tie gala inside the Ashworth Grand Pacific, a beloved philanthropist raises his glass, delivers his final toast—and collapses before four hundred witnesses.
The glass is clean. The poison was never in it.
Tucked into his breast pocket is a cream card addressed to one man: LAPD homicide detective Logan Hollister.
The sender calls himself The Rival
The murders are public.
The grades are personal.
He watched Logan hunt The Confessor. Now he is staging a series of impossible murders in public—and mailing Logan his grades, in red ink.
The city is watching. The grades keep coming.
Inside the case
A killer who wants an audience.
A detective who needs the truth.
- Impossible murders in plain sight: crowded rooms, public performances, and witnesses who saw everything except what mattered.
- A rivalry written in red ink: each new grade turns an investigation into a personal challenge.
- Los Angeles behind the velvet rope: grand rooms, guest lists, and the service corridors the audience never sees.
- Logan Hollister and Curt Alton: two detectives following the human details beneath an elaborate performance.
- The next Logan Hollister novel: a new case in the world introduced in The Confessor.
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The case gets personal
The audience sees a spectacle.
Logan has to see what they missed.
As Los Angeles turns the killings into spectacle, Logan and his partner, Curt Alton, work the city's grandest rooms and the service corridors behind them—the guest lists, the witnesses, the details the audience missed. The grades keep coming.
The Rival doesn't want to escape unnoticed. He wants the best detective in Los Angeles to make it all the way to the final exam.
And he has already built it.
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Is this your kind of thriller?
Look past the performance.
Like a case you can work alongside the detective?
Follow the guest lists, the witnesses, and the small details hiding behind a very public crime.
Drawn to a battle of minds?
The Rival makes each investigation a test, with Logan himself as the student.
Ready to return to Logan’s Los Angeles?
Step back into the city with Logan and Curt as a new killer turns its grandest rooms into crime scenes.
Before you choose
A few quick answers.
Where does The Rival fit in the series?
The Rival is Book Two in the Logan Hollister series by Noah Christopher. Book One is The Confessor.
Should I read The Confessor first?
For the full series experience, start with The Confessor. The Rival watched Logan’s earlier hunt, and that history is part of the new case.
Which edition should I choose?
Choose Kindle for digital reading, paperback for a flexible physical copy, or hardcover for your bookshelf. The story is the same in all three.
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Does this page reveal the ending?
No. This page introduces the case using the book’s description without revealing its resolution.
Start at the beginning
Before The Rival,
there was The Confessor.
Meet Logan Hollister in the first novel. Then follow him into the case built for him.
Discover The ConfessorThe case is waiting
The next grade is addressed to Logan.
Choose your edition of The Rival.
Then step inside the Ashworth Grand Pacific.