Episodes
- 1The Water Is ComingRead free
- 2Nineteen BoxesRead free
- 3C.Read free
- 4Five Names In the app
- 5There Was Never a Road for One In the app
- 6The Families' Version In the app
- 7Box Seven In the app
- 8Three Hundred and Thirty Days In the app
- 9Brindle Hall In the app
- 10Two Files In the app
- 11The Comparison Table In the app
- 12Carbon Copies In the app
- 13The Retired Superintendent In the app
- 14The Geography Problem In the app
- 15What Counts as Different In the app
- 16One Number In the app
- 17Before the Statement In the app
- 18The Statement in One File In the app
- 19A Living Witness In the app
- 20Episode 20 In the app
- 21Episode 21 In the app
- 22The Gate That Should Have Been Locked In the app
- 23Water Board, Miscellaneous In the app
- 24Employee 417 In the app
- 25The Road Behind the Road In the app
- 26A Walk That Took Too Long In the app
- 27Silas Cadwell In the app
- 28Four Fortnights In the app
- 29The Request in the Tray In the app
- 30Never Sent In the app
- 31The Failure After the Answer In the app
- 32A Good Detective's Mistake In the app
- 33The Search Orders In the app
- 34The Map in Box Six In the app
- 35Sorcha, Properly In the app
- 36The Fifth Search In the app
- 37The Edge of the Grid In the app
- 38One Square Short In the app
- 39The Argument for Error In the app
- 40Not a Mistake In the app
- 41THE MAN ABOVE MY FATHER In the app
- 42WHAT REACHED HIS DESK In the app
- 43THE COST OF LOOKING AWAY In the app
- 44THE NEAR THING In the app
- 45THE FIFTH COLUMN In the app
- 46THE WORKSHEET In the app
- 47NO PEAT In the app
- 48A THEORY CALLED BLACKMAIL In the app
- 49THE HOUR THAT SHOULD NOT EXIST In the app
- 50THE FIFTH ABDUCTION In the app
About this story
Thirty-one years ago, five people vanished from the quiet town of Ashenmoor—including nine-year-old Ivy Merrit. Her father, Detective Chief Inspector Gethin Merrit, spent the rest of his life trying to solve the case. He died with nineteen boxes of evidence still stacked in his garage and a reputation built on never giving up. Now his surviving daughter, cold-case detective Calla Merrit, has only eleven months before the fen where the victims may be buried disappears beneath a new reservoir. She expects to finish the investigation that destroyed her family. Instead, she discovers something no one was ever supposed to notice. There are two versions of the case file. Statements are missing. Search maps have been altered. Evidence points in directions it never should have. And buried among her father’s papers is proof that he may have known exactly who the killer was decades ago. The deeper Calla digs, the more terrifying the question becomes—not who took the victims, but why her father spent thirty-one years making sure the case could never be solved. Because only four people were taken. And the truth about the fifth victim begins inside Calla’s own family. To give four families the answers they have waited decades for, Calla may have to destroy her father’s legacy, expose the people she loves, and sacrifice the career she built trying to become everything she believed he was.
Story genome
What kind of ride this is, before you start.
- Tone
- mysterious, cinematic, emotionally direct · serial escalation
- Relationship
- dynamic ensemble
- Conflict
- external mystery
- Setting
- Mystery / Crime
- Rules of the world
- story-specific rules
- Ending style
- serial payoff
- Cliffhanger4/5
- Violence2/5
- Romance1/5
- Comedy1/5
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