The Seventh Confession
Four months of silence ends when Clara Moss steps through the door of her father's house on Larch Street, where tea has been steeping long past saving. Judge Aldric Moss has vanish
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- The first 20% of every book, rounded up, so at least one chapter. Across this shelf that is about 4 chapters per book, and every book here is 20 chapters long.
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- What kinds of cold case books are on this shelf?
- The shelf holds 12 books, mostly romance, horror and fantasy. Every one is tagged cold case, so you can narrow further from the related shelves below.
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The Lagoon Remembers
The lagoon has been swallowing the town's dead for thirty years, and it's just starting to remember their names. Mara Ellison knows this. She's known it since the road pinched at t
The Phantom Rev
Cole Hartman rolls into Rusthaven, Ohio at two in the morning, rain lashing the windshield of his Lancer, fleeing a future he can't outrun and returning to a past that won't stay b
Where the Tides Remember
A handwritten letter delivered at dusk drags Elena Voss back to Saltmarsh, the fog-choked coastal town she fled a decade ago, leaving behind her mother's grave, her sister Rosalind
The Loom of Dead Hours
When the third bell of Vellthar rings flat and tinny, Thessaly Venn knows before the sound reaches her that something on the loom of the world has come loose. She is a guild seamst
The Hollow Saints
Cora Vance swings off the mail truck at the four-way stop where County Road 12 meets what Stillwater Bend calls its main street, and the gravel crunches under her boots like the to
Where Saints Lie Sleeping
Edda Vance is running toward a place she was told never to find. The coach rattles across the moorland, heather brown and seed-dead under a sky the color of old iron, while in her
What the Tide Kept
The ocean doesn't forget what it swallows. Elena Voss has spent five years keeping her distance from Grayport, Oregon, the small coastal town where her mother Ruth's breakdown ende
The Glass Inheritance
When Ingrid Solberg dies at the family glassworks on the fog-bound Swedish coast, she leaves behind a contested inheritance, and a stack of letters addressed to a woman who has nev
Ink and Saltwater
A letter sealed with salt-stained wax arrives at the Camden studio of Sera Blackwood, art restorer, and asks a question no one else in her family has dared to answer: who was Alist
The Briarwake
The Westerfield disappearance has been a pattern for eleven years. No one in Hollow Creek will say why. True-crime podcaster Elara Fenwick has dissected the case for her listeners,
Where the River Remembers
Some rivers don't carry things away. They hold them fast. Dr. Lena Voss arrived in Sable Reach with a mandate and a cold coffee, requisitioning a municipal office for three weeks t