the Wolf in Water

Thirty-three years ago, seven-year-old Savannah "Vanna" Bennett disappeared from the small town of Eden Creek, North Carolina. Her fishing pole was found near Wolf's Bend. Beads from the bracelet she wore were scattered nearby. But Vanna was never found.Her older sister, Charlotte "Charli" Bennett, has spent a lifetime carrying the guilt of that day.Now a detective in Washington, D.C., Charli has built a life far away from Eden Creek and the unanswered questions she left behind. But when her mother dies, Charli returns home with her teenage daughter and finds herself surrounded by memories she thought she had buried.Then old questions begin to surface.A man once suspected in Vanna's disappearance insists he was innocent. People remember things differently than they did in 1993. Details from the original investigation no longer seem to fit. And the closer Charli looks, the more she begins to wonder whether everyone-including her own family-has spent thirty-three years believing the wrong story.Someone in Eden Creek knows what happened to Vanna.Someone has lived with the truth for more than three decades.And Charli is finally ready to uncover it.The Wolf in the Water is a gripping Southern mystery and crime-suspense novel about family, grief, buried secrets, and one woman's determination to discover what really happened to the little sister she never stopped searching for.