Snow Creek

There were footprints everywhere, resembling fallen leaves. Fear filled her lungs again as she peered down into the ravine. In the bushes lay a body that was motionless and silent.

Detective Megan Carpenter has a gut feeling that more has to be done when Ruth Turner enters the Jefferson County Sheriff's office in Port Townsend, stating her sister Ida Wheaton has been missing for more than a month.

After racing to Ida's remote farmhouse in the hills above Snow Creek, Megan discovers that Ida's adolescent children are scared and alone. It occurs to her that there isn't a TV. Absent video games. Not a trace of the outer world. Something about the Wheaton family seems off, and it brings back for Megan a traumatic childhood experience in which her parents vanished out of thin air one day.

Then, not far from the Wheatons' house, a woman's death is found in an abandoned pickup truck, and Megan is certain that the two cases are related.

To have any hope of apprehending the murderer, Megan needs to first discover the mysteries surrounding the remote Snow Creek village. However, Megan has her own dark secrets.

A box of tapes that has every single recording of her treatment sessions from over thirteen years ago is hidden in the back of her wardrobe. Can she now face the history that she has been attempting to ignore for years? And will she be able to solve the intricate case that is developing in the hills above Snow Creek before another innocent life is lost by reliving her own traumatic experience?

Presenting Detective Megan Carpenter, a gripping and utterly captivating crime series from the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Chart bestselling author.