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A TOWN BUILT ON SILENCE
Secrets can stay buried for decades.
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About A TOWN BUILT ON SILENCE
Secrets can stay buried for decades. But in a small town, everyone knows who holds the shovel. Twenty years ago, a brutal crime tore through the quiet farmlands of Blackwood, Iowa. A wrongful conviction sealed the case, a community looked the other way, and the bodies of the unrecovered victims were left to the earth. The town moved on. Mary Love hasn't. As an obsessive cold-case reporter, Mary has made a career out of giving voices to the forgotten. But her latest investigation drags her directly into the oppressive, insular heart of Blackwood—a town built on silence, where outsiders are met with cold stares and doors are locked tight. The deeper Mary digs into the two-decade-old mystery, the more the carefully constructed lies of the townspeople begin to unravel. But exposing the truth means crossing a ruthless killer who has gone to devastating lengths to keep the past buried. And in a town where everyone is hiding something, Mary quickly realizes she might just become the next unrecovered body. If you love gritty female sleuths, dark small-town secrets, and slow-burn psychological suspense, you won’t be able to put down this gripping first installment in this Thriller series.
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