Jacqueline Faber

jacqueline faber

Jacqueline Faber is an author and freelance writer in Los Angeles. Her debut novel, The Department, is a dark academic thriller about a reckless college girl who goes missing, a jaded philosophy professor who goes looking for her, and the terrifying secrets that emerge along the way.

Some secrets we keep even from ourselves

Philosophy professor Neil Weber is running on empty. His wife has left him, his academic research has sputtered, and tenure is more remote than ever.

Until Lucia Vanotti disappears.

A college student at the Southern university where Neil teaches, Lucia has a secret of her own—one that haunts her relationships and leads to destructive, reckless behavior. When Neil is drawn into the mystery of her disappearance, he finds himself suddenly relevant again. But at what cost? Each clue pulls him deeper into Lucia’s dark past, but also into the hidden lives of his closest friends and colleagues.

From campus classrooms to sex dens to backwoods hideaways, The Department follows Neil and Lucia as they descend into obsession, delusion, and the dangerous terrain of memory.