What the Fog Hides: for ones who came back. and couldn't. A Fiction Novel Based on Suspense, Crime Thriller

One death is a tragedy. Five deaths in twelve years is a pattern.Dr. Mara Calloway thought she knew what she had found on Veilmore Island - a single cover-up, contained, manageable, already beginning to unravel. Then a summer tourist dies on a kayaking trip in perfect conditions, and the county coroner rules it accidental, and Mara recognizes the feeling she had when she stood at Caleb Holt's funeral and watched a community breathe out.She goes back through the records. Five deaths in twelve years. All outsiders. All in summer. All in calm water on clear days. All connected by a thread she is only beginning to name.Rosa Nkosi arrives with her journalist's notebook and a press credential and the kind of focused, fearless curiosity that has made her excellent at her job and occasionally puts her in danger. Together they begin pulling a thread the island really doesn't want pulled.But someone on Veilmore has been watching. And what they know about Mara's past changes what they are willing to do to make her stop.Deeper, darker, and more dangerous than its predecessor."Five deaths in twelve years. One forensic psychologist who reads communities the way others read crime scenes. And a pattern the island has been covering up longer than she's been alive."