The Hollow Shore

A body on the cliffs outside Boston doesn't just kill someone, it kills everyone who helped bury them. When journalist Juliet March finds a dead woman's final tape recording, it pulls her back into the eleven-week disloyalty case that already cost her a source in Hartford and two mirrors from her grandmother. She has what she came for: a spreadsheet of names. What she didn't plan for is that the names keep moving. Detective Idris Voss is on the trail, but his file is incomplete and his loyalties are a rumor. Juliet cross-references his leads against her own and finds the gaps wide enough to drive a van through. Simon Vesper's quiet alibi doesn't hold under Maren Ito's coded messages. Mrs. Calloway's house on Shore Drive stays silent for nine days. Augustus Pryor's old money threads into a laboratory where Dr. Pearl Anders has been running tests no one authorized. Father Elias Thorne knows the night the body was found better than anyone who'll admit it. Dara Greer, the last ally Juliet trusted, starts asking questions she can't answer without lying. Theo March, her brother, says too little at the right moments. Cass Holden hasn't been reachable in three weeks. The hollow shore isn't geography. It's the space between what's buried and what's still breathing. Every tape Juliet plays narrows the field. Every name she crosses off puts a target on her back, and the people in that target's crosshairs, Naomi Cole, Tess Marlowe, Ruth Caine, Jackie Renn, Henry Halse, aren't all still standing. She can finish the story before the story finishes her, or she can hand the last tape to Voss and let the system do its slow work. Either way, the tide is coming in, and the shore is not going to wait.