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BUTTERFLY FALLS
By Jessica Noll
PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER | 100K WORDS | DUAL POV
When her sister is murdered, Jane Noel begrudgingly returns to her rural hometown. It’s been 20 years since she’s stepped foot inside Cherry Hill – the small town harboring her sister, Maggie’s killer and generations of buried secrets.
As an investigative journalist, Jane has made an award-winning career of exposing the truth behind real-life villains in her crime reporting, but this case is personal – and she’s not about to let some small town detective investigate her sister’s murder, especially one she knows and doesn’t trust.
But as Jane starts investigating, she spirals down a twisted trail of secrets she must unravel to discover what’s real and what’s her skewed perspective of her past life here. When she uncovers that her own past threatens her present, Jane must untangle the truth from the lies, before she’s swallowed whole by unrelenting grief, this unhinged small town and her sister’s killer, who’s now hunting her.
Butterfly Falls is a raw look into the pain of loss and guilt, alongside haunting secrets that implode everything Jane thought she knew — all leading to murder. Intertwined with a cast of complex characters from her past, Jane must question who, if anyone, she can trust. Because the truth lies somewhere between her distrust of others and of herself.
Jane must confront the killer and her own past to survive.
My Prequel
Investigative Journalist & True Crime Podcaster
Most Recent Awards
Ambie Podcast Award (2024)
Signal Podcast Award (2024)
CrimeCon Clue Award for Best Podcast Series (2023)
Shorty Awards Finalist 2023
3 Emmy Awards (2016-2019)
National Edward R. Murrow Award for Innovation (2019)
Multiple Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards
Multiple Associated Press Awards
Atlanta Press Club Award (2019)
Various other awards for journalism, writing, photography, etc. (2002-2024)
My investigative reporting has been featured in Forbes, Newsweek, New York Magazine’s Vulture, Crime and Investigations UK, and on Dateline NBC, CourtTV, CrimeOnline, Oxygen, Daily Blast Live, MSNBC, HLN’s Real Life Nightmare, CNN, Fox News, NBC and Crime Stories w/Nancy Grace, among others.
Podcast Production Credits:
*Untitled: Lead writer/producer (in development)
*Undetermined: Host, investigative producer/writer (No. 1 on Apple Podcasts) - Winner of an Ambie Award and Signal Award.
*Dateline NBC’s Missing in America series: Producer/writer - Seasons 1-2 (No. 1 on Apple Podcasts both seasons) - Winner of CrimeCon CLUE Award and Shorty Award Finalist.
*Dateline NBC’s Mortal Sin: Producer/writer (No. 1 on Apple Podcasts)
*Bardstown: Investigative producer/writer (No. 1 on Apple Podcasts)
*The Investigators: Co-host, investigative producer/writer/executive producer
*Culpable – Season 2: Investigative producer
*This Day in Crime: Co-host, executive producer/writer
*Back in Crime: Host, executive producer/writer
*True Crime Chronicles: Co-host, producer/writer
*The Officer’s Wife: Investigative producer/writer
*Selena, A Star Dies in Texas: Investigative producer/co-writer
*5 Roses: Host, Investigative producer/writer