A note from Jennifer Graeser Dornbush
The latest Coroner’s Daughter Mystery. A boy who will not step on snow. A detective running out of daylight. A file that opens before the book does.
Blackstone Publishing · October 20, 2026
For every preorder
Exhibit 1 of 7 · the file cover
The moment you preorder
Every reader who preorders receives the same thing I would hand a reporter on the first day of a real investigation: the file itself. Built to read like an actual Freeport County briefing on seventeen-year-old Ethan Quon, complete with the scene report, the postmortem worksheet, and Detective Aditson’s own open questions.
Open it before you open the book. Nothing inside runs past chapter one, so you walk into December in Freeport already standing in the case, and the story gets to do the rest.
Included with every preorder · delivered by email once your receipt is verified
When we hit our goal, together
Help Walking on White cross its preorder goal, and I will open the rest of the file. Six more pieces of evidence, in two different hands: the county’s, cold and procedural, and mine, warmer, closer to how I actually think about this town. Everyone who preorders gets the Case File regardless. The Field Kit is what we unlock together.
Piece one
A note from me on Jace and the real syndrome he lives with, set apart from the novel so the two never blur.
Piece two
Detective Aditson’s own field rules for questioning someone who cannot answer you the way you expect.
Piece three
The working corkboard itself: index cards, red string, and two days he still cannot account for.
Piece four
Dr. Hartford’s own working notes. Not the official record, and not meant for the file.
Piece five
Every street, house, and lot the case runs through, laid out so you can follow along house by house.
Piece six
Thirty-two songs off the DJ table that night, and eight more from me, for reading by.
Every piece holds the same rule as the book itself: nothing past chapter one.
The part that takes two minutes
Any format, any retailer. Keep your receipt or your order confirmation. A screenshot is fine.
Hand that receipt to Blackstone Publishing at the link below. It takes about a minute, and it is the only step that is not with me.
Your Pre-Read Case File arrives by email once your receipt is verified. The Freeport Field Kit follows the moment we hit our preorder goal.
