Displacement

Displacement follows Liam Donohue, a seemingly ordinary eighteen year old boy who appears to have an enviable life. He’s just finished high school, has loving parents, and is about to start his final summer before college with his three best friends. However, there’s only one thing—he currently faces first-degree murder charges for a heinous, yet unknown crime.

Liam’s harrowing journey begins on a cool summer night in 1998, when he walks into a record store with his friends Jason, Madelyn, and Ashley. As he browses for his collection, something unexpected stops him dead in his an album featuring a menacing photo of him as a child on its cover. Horrified and confused, Liam becomes compelled to uncover how this photo ended up there—and why the sight of it fills him with an unshakable sense of dread that he cannot explain. As Liam digs deeper, he unravels a web of disturbing truths in his pursuit to learn about his past that will not only shatter his own understanding of who he is, but also the public’s.

Told through the transcript of the recorded interrogation between Liam Donohue and the detective assigned to his case, the reader must figure out for themselves whether Liam is telling impossible truths, or concealing something far more sinister.