Echoes of the Unsolved

Book 1 of the Echoes of the Unsolved series.Twenty years ago Lucy Caldwell walked out of a party on the edge of town and never came home. Maplewood has had twenty years to decide what it believes.Mia Turner's podcast was supposed to be a small thing - old cases, careful research, an audience of a few thousand people who like the sound of somebody paying attention. Then she went back to Lucy.What she finds isn't a mystery. It's a town that already knows.A witness statement taken the night Lucy vanished and never followed up, the interview notes cut off mid-page. A newspaper article three column-inches long about a party nobody wants named. A retired art teacher who remembers that day with a clarity that frightens her. And a great many people who were seventeen once, who said nothing, and who have spent two decades building lives on top of it.They talk to Mia because she asks. Then the emails start.I told you to stop.The truth about Lucy Caldwell was never hidden. It was held - by neighbors, by friends, by people who loved her, each of them keeping one small piece and never setting it beside anyone else's.Mia is going to put those pieces together on air, in front of the whole town, and find out what twenty years of silence costs to break.And when it is over, she will understand that there were two men in the dark that night, and that only one of them has been named.A psychological thriller about the towns that keep their own secrets, what it takes to make a place look at itself, and the difference between solving a case and ending it.