The Letters of Hollow Creek (Strange Town Files)
The water is going down — and Hollow Creek's oldest secret is rising with it. Thirty years ago, the dam flooded the valley and drowned the old town: its houses, its church, and at least one man no one bothered to miss. Now a long drought is pulling the reservoir back, and the old black steeple has begun to rise crooked from the surface, like something climbing out. Then the letters start. Fresh ink, slipped under doors in the dark, signed by a man who has been dead for thirty years. Quinn Marsh came to write a quiet story about a dying town. She turns out to be the only one who can feel the cold that arrives with each letter — the only one the drowned man will speak to. Jonah Reed wants one thing before the water closes over him again: he wants Hollow Creek to say who killed him, and why. But the town keeps its own order, and someone it still trusts has spent three decades making sure the truth stayed under. The longer Quinn looks, the plainer it becomes that some secrets would sooner take another body than surface. In a town that polices itself, the most dangerous thing you can do is keep looking. The Letters of Hollow Creek is the second novel in the Strange Town Files — a series of standalone supernatural mysteries that can be read in any order. Read more