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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
What The Water Kept
A Page-Turning Small-Town Mystery
Verlag:
Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36591385
EAN: 9798186515272
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Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Do, 08.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 33.75
Beschreibung
Some things are drowned to be forgotten. The drought remembers them anyway. Three years of drought have pulled Kettle Hollow Reservoir down to the lowest level anyone has seen since the valley was flooded in 1961 - and as the water recedes, it gives back a town. The drowned streets of Old Kettle Hollow rise out of the mud: a church steeple, a road, a graveyard the county was supposed to move and never finished. And half-buried at the old boat launch, in the deepest channel, a 1983 car that no record ever said went into the water, with a teenager belted into the driver's seat. Sheriff Cole Taggart knows two things before the day is out: the boy in the car is Shane Merritt, who the whole county always said "ran away" the summer he turned seventeen - and Shane Merritt never left Raven Creek at all. The deeper Cole digs, the clearer the shape of it becomes. A guardrail the Water and Power Authority swore it had fixed and never did. A boy who went over an edge that should have stopped him. A car sunk in the one place in the county that kept no records. And a second boy - Ray Cullen, seventeen, terrified - handed a grave to carry and a lie to live inside, so that a powerful man's signature would never have to be explained. Ray carried it for forty-one years. It cost him everything, including his own child, who grew up in the shadow of a silence no one would name. Now the drought has forced it all up into the light - and the man who runs the Authority today would rather raise the water and drown it a second time than let the county learn what its prosperity was built on. With records specialist June Taggart working the paper and podcaster Abby Stratton tracing the town's oldest sins, Cole has until the reservoir rises to prove what the water was made to keep. What the Water Kept. is the tenth Raven Creek Files novel - a small-town crime thriller about an accident that took a few seconds, a cover-up that took forty years, and the inheritance of a silence that deformed everyone it touched.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Daniel Parton
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 170