There are some investigations you can walk away from. Then there are the ones that follow you home. For Sin Sackey, returning to Washington, DC, was supposed to be a chance to put a failed career and a painful past behind her. Instead, a new investigation pulls her back into the world she thought she had left, just as a new romance gives her another reason to be careful about whom she trusts. In To Catch a Sinner, Lucy Wilson-Tagoe places a journalist at the intersection of desire, deception and a dangerous search for the truth.

The novel follows Sin Sackey, an investigative journalist whose professional ambitions and personal life have unravelled. After a near-death experience and a career setback in New York, Sin returns to Washington, DC, hoping to begin again. But when a new lead draws her back into investigative journalism, the past she has tried to escape begins to catch up with her.

Then there is Kwame, a charming lawyer whose arrival complicates Sin’s plans for a quiet fresh start. Their attraction grows into something deeper, but as Sin investigates a black-market empire involved in stolen art and cultural artefacts, she discovers that the man she is falling for may be connected to the very story she is trying to uncover.

Written by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Dylan Allen under the pen name Lucy Wilson-Tagoe, To Catch a Sinner is the first book in the Blurred Lines Duet. Wilson-Tagoe, a Ghanaian American writer and lawyer, writes characters from across the African diaspora and the Global South, bringing the immigrant experience and Ghanaian family life into a romantic suspense story.

At its centre, the novel is interested in what happens when the life you have carefully constructed no longer fits. For Sin, starting over means confronting old ambitions, family expectations, a dangerous investigation, and a romance that arrives at exactly the wrong time.

Published by Blue Box Press on June 23, 2026, To Catch a Sinner is a steamy friends-to-lovers romance threaded with mystery, betrayal and the possibility that the person closest to you may be the one you should fear.

Here’s the synopsis:

Who gets to tell this story?

The sinner who lived it?

Or the saint who stole it? 

Sin Sackey is driven by the same hardwired need as every eldest first-generation daughter—to make her family proud. And she built her career and chose her partners with that single goal as her north star. 

Everyone said she had it all. And for more than twenty years, Sin let herself believe they were right.  Until a near-death experience makes the truth impossible to deny.

Her relationship is on life support. Her journalism career is in freefall. And the city she thought she’d conquer has chewed her up and spit her out.

With everything to prove—and everything to lose—Sin moves back home to Washington, DC, determined to start over. No more chasing shadowy criminals. And no more men who look too good to be true.

But on the eve of the first day of the rest of her new life, the saying about old habits proves painfully accurate. A new lead falls into her lap, and Sin dives back into the story that nearly cost her everything.  Then, when a man who is all the things she’s sworn to avoid invites her to dinner, she says yes.

After everything she’s been through, it’s reckless.  But this story could resurrect her career—and take down an entire black-market empire. She’s closer than ever to catching its elusive leader, and she can’t let go now.

And this man—who makes her blush, makes her laugh, and understands things she usually has to explain—could be the one. So, she lowers her walls just enough for him to climb over.  

But just when it seems her gamble might pay off, her lead starts to feel more like a trap. And the man she’s let herself love appears to be the one who set it.

To Catch a Sinner is a steamy, suspenseful friends-to-lovers romance between a relentless journalist and a mysterious lawyer with a complicated shared past. Set against a fictionalised Washington, DC, this fast-paced, high-stakes story explores reclaiming identity, challenging power, and the pursuit of a new American dream.

 

Buy To Catch a Sinner here