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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The water was low the morning they pulled Ana Vance out of the Marrow Falls reservoir, and Sheriff Wade Holt called it before the fog had even lifted: an accident, a girl who'd had too much to drink and lost her footing on the dock. Case closed by Friday.Deputy Callan Reyes doesn't buy it. Not with the bruises on her forearms. Not with a sheriff who's never once rushed to judgment before deciding, on this particular morning, that speed matters more than the truth.The county's medical examiner gives him ten days before the finding becomes official and unappealable. Ten days to prove that a nineteen-year-old scholarship student with two jobs and a spotless record was murdered, in a county that has spent two decades perfecting the art of not asking the questions it doesn't want answered.What Callan finds, piece by piece, is a shell company. A ledger. A pattern of deaths going back further than anyone in Marrow Falls has ever been willing to admit, each one arriving at exactly the moment someone got too close to the money moving quietly beneath the county's surface. A judge. A banker. A contractor. A trooper two counties over. Ordinary people, each of them having made, at some point, the same small and reasonable-seeming exception that this town has always quietly demanded of the people who want to keep living in it.And at the center of it, in handwriting Callan has known his whole life: his father's.Del Reyes spent thirty years as the most trusted sheriff this county ever had. Somewhere in the slow wreckage of a dying mill town, he built something meant to keep the lights on a little longer than the town deserved -- and it quietly became something else entirely, a machine patient enough to survive two decades and desperate enough to have just killed a girl who never understood what she was carrying for it. Now Del is eighty-one, losing his mind a little more each week, and his son has ten days to decide whether uncovering the truth about Ana Vance means burying his own father to do it.The Quiet County is a slow-burn small-town mystery about the difference between the mercies that keep a community alive and the ones that just feed whoever is already eating well enough -- and about what it finally costs a person to stop looking away. It is told through the eyes of a deputy who left for the Army and came home changed enough to see his own county clearly; the medical examiner who first laid a decade of death certificates beside a stranger's ledger and noticed they matched; the sister determined that her sister be remembered as a person rather than a case file; and the ordinary men and women -- a retired schoolteacher, a county clerk, a bartender, a nineteen-year-old firefighter -- who have spent years quietly keeping score of favors that were never supposed to add up to anything at all.Marrow Falls has always known how to submerge what it cannot bear to look at directly. This is the story of the ten days that finally force it to stop.For readers of quiet, character-driven crime fiction in the tradition of small-town noir: stories less concerned with whodunit than with what an entire community allows itself to become when survival and complicity start to look like the same thing, and what it takes for one person, finally, to refuse the difference. The Quiet County asks what a son owes the truth when the truth will cost him his father -- and what the living owe the dead when it would be so much easier to let them stay buried. A body in the reservoir. A ten-day deadline. A ledger that leads to the sheriff's father. In Marrow Falls, Deputy Callan Reyes must choose between protecting his dying father and finally telling the truth about who this county has always been. This item is printed Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Some towns don't forget. They just learn to keep quiet.Marrow Falls looks like the kind of place people dream about escaping to - pine-covered hills, a slow-moving river, a Main Street where everyone waves and nobody locks their doors. But beneath the postcard stillness runs a current of silence that has protected the town's most powerful families for twenty years, and Officer Ray Holt has spent his entire career learning exactly how deep that silence goes.Holt didn't set out to become the kind of cop who looks away. He tells himself it happened slowly - a favor here, a report that never got filed, a witness who 'changed her mind.' Enough small compromises, made for what felt like the right reasons at the time, until one day he woke up and realized he'd built a career on knowing when not to see.Then the ice breaks on Miller's Creek, and it surfaces a body that was never supposed to be found.The victim has a name Holt recognizes. A connection to a case he closed years ago - one he told himself was finished, buried, done. As the investigation creeps forward, inch by reluctant inch, Holt realizes the body isn't just evidence. It's a message. Someone in Marrow Falls wants the past unburied, and they're willing to burn down everything the town has built to make sure it stays that way.With a state investigator breathing down his neck, old friends turning cold, and a mounting sense that the people he trusted most had a hand in what happened, Holt is forced into a reckoning he's spent two decades avoiding. Every question he asks peels back another layer of a town built on complicity - the sheriff who taught him the rules, the councilwoman who funds the silence, the childhood friend who may know more than she's letting on.The Quiet County is a slow-burning, atmospheric crime novel steeped in the tradition of Scandinavian noir - fog-bound, morally complex, and unflinching in its portrait of a community that chose comfort over justice. This is not a story of a lone hero cracking a case. It's a story about complicity: how ordinary people become accomplices to the things they refuse to name, and what it costs to finally speak.For readers who loved the atmosphere of Jo Nesbø, the moral weight of Tana French, and the small-town dread of Broadchurch and Mare of Easttown, The Quiet County delivers a slow-burn mystery that trades car chases for creeping dread - and easy answers for the uncomfortable truth that justice in a small town is never as blind as it claims to be.As Ray Holt gets closer to the truth, he has to decide what kind of man he wants to be when the town he swore to protect turns out to be the thing he needs protecting from. Because in Marrow Falls, the real crime was never the body in the creek.It was everyone who knew, and said nothing.A haunting, character-driven thriller about silence, complicity, and the price of the truth - perfect for fans of literary crime fiction and Nordic noir.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The water was low the morning they pulled Ana Vance out of the Marrow Falls reservoir, and Sheriff Wade Holt called it before the fog had even lifted: an accident, a girl who'd had too much to drink and lost her footing on the dock. Case closed by Friday.Deputy Callan Reyes doesn't buy it. Not with the bruises on her forearms. Not with a sheriff who's never once rushed to judgment before deciding, on this particular morning, that speed matters more than the truth.The county's medical examiner gives him ten days before the finding becomes official and unappealable. Ten days to prove that a nineteen-year-old scholarship student with two jobs and a spotless record was murdered, in a county that has spent two decades perfecting the art of not asking the questions it doesn't want answered.What Callan finds, piece by piece, is a shell company. A ledger. A pattern of deaths going back further than anyone in Marrow Falls has ever been willing to admit, each one arriving at exactly the moment someone got too close to the money moving quietly beneath the county's surface. A judge. A banker. A contractor. A trooper two counties over. Ordinary people, each of them having made, at some point, the same small and reasonable-seeming exception that this town has always quietly demanded of the people who want to keep living in it.And at the center of it, in handwriting Callan has known his whole life: his father's.Del Reyes spent thirty years as the most trusted sheriff this county ever had. Somewhere in the slow wreckage of a dying mill town, he built something meant to keep the lights on a little longer than the town deserved -- and it quietly became something else entirely, a machine patient enough to survive two decades and desperate enough to have just killed a girl who never understood what she was carrying for it. Now Del is eighty-one, losing his mind a little more each week, and his son has ten days to decide whether uncovering the truth about Ana Vance means burying his own father to do it.The Quiet County is a slow-burn small-town mystery about the difference between the mercies that keep a community alive and the ones that just feed whoever is already eating well enough -- and about what it finally costs a person to stop looking away. It is told through the eyes of a deputy who left for the Army and came home changed enough to see his own county clearly; the medical examiner who first laid a decade of death certificates beside a stranger's ledger and noticed they matched; the sister determined that her sister be remembered as a person rather than a case file; and the ordinary men and women -- a retired schoolteacher, a county clerk, a bartender, a nineteen-year-old firefighter -- who have spent years quietly keeping score of favors that were never supposed to add up to anything at all.Marrow Falls has always known how to submerge what it cannot bear to look at directly. This is the story of the ten days that finally force it to stop.For readers of quiet, character-driven crime fiction in the tradition of small-town noir: stories less concerned with whodunit than with what an entire community allows itself to become when survival and complicity start to look like the same thing, and what it takes for one person, finally, to refuse the difference. The Quiet County asks what a son owes the truth when the truth will cost him his father -- and what the living owe the dead when it would be so much easier to let them stay buried. A body in the reservoir. A ten-day deadline. A ledger that leads to the sheriff's father. In Marrow Falls, Deputy Callan Reyes must choose between protecting his dying father and finally telling the truth about who this county has always been. This item is printed Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The water was low the morning they pulled Ana Vance out of the Marrow Falls reservoir, and Sheriff Wade Holt called it before the fog had even lifted: an accident, a girl who'd had too much to drink and lost her footing on the dock. Case closed by Friday.Deputy Callan Reyes doesn't buy it. Not with the bruises on her forearms. Not with a sheriff who's never once rushed to judgment before deciding, on this particular morning, that speed matters more than the truth.The county's medical examiner gives him ten days before the finding becomes official and unappealable. Ten days to prove that a nineteen-year-old scholarship student with two jobs and a spotless record was murdered, in a county that has spent two decades perfecting the art of not asking the questions it doesn't want answered.What Callan finds, piece by piece, is a shell company. A ledger. A pattern of deaths going back further than anyone in Marrow Falls has ever been willing to admit, each one arriving at exactly the moment someone got too close to the money moving quietly beneath the county's surface. A judge. A banker. A contractor. A trooper two counties over. Ordinary people, each of them having made, at some point, the same small and reasonable-seeming exception that this town has always quietly demanded of the people who want to keep living in it.And at the center of it, in handwriting Callan has known his whole life: his father's.Del Reyes spent thirty years as the most trusted sheriff this county ever had. Somewhere in the slow wreckage of a dying mill town, he built something meant to keep the lights on a little longer than the town deserved -- and it quietly became something else entirely, a machine patient enough to survive two decades and desperate enough to have just killed a girl who never understood what she was carrying for it. Now Del is eighty-one, losing his mind a little more each week, and his son has ten days to decide whether uncovering the truth about Ana Vance means burying his own father to do it.The Quiet County is a slow-burn small-town mystery about the difference between the mercies that keep a community alive and the ones that just feed whoever is already eating well enough -- and about what it finally costs a person to stop looking away. It is told through the eyes of a deputy who left for the Army and came home changed enough to see his own county clearly; the medical examiner who first laid a decade of death certificates beside a stranger's ledger and noticed they matched; the sister determined that her sister be remembered as a person rather than a case file; and the ordinary men and women -- a retired schoolteacher, a county clerk, a bartender, a nineteen-year-old firefighter -- who have spent years quietly keeping score of favors that were never supposed to add up to anything at all.Marrow Falls has always known how to submerge what it cannot bear to look at directly. This is the story of the ten days that finally force it to stop.For readers of quiet, character-driven crime fiction in the tradition of small-town noir: stories less concerned with whodunit than with what an entire community allows itself to become when survival and complicity start to look like the same thing, and what it takes for one person, finally, to refuse the difference. The Quiet County asks what a son owes the truth when the truth will cost him his father -- and what the living owe the dead when it would be so much easier to let them stay buried. A body in the reservoir. A ten-day deadline. A ledger that leads to the sheriff's father. In Marrow Falls, Deputy Callan Reyes must choose between protecting his dying father and finally telling the truth about who this county has always been. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Some towns don't forget. They just learn to keep quiet.Marrow Falls looks like the kind of place people dream about escaping to - pine-covered hills, a slow-moving river, a Main Street where everyone waves and nobody locks their doors. But beneath the postcard stillness runs a current of silence that has protected the town's most powerful families for twenty years, and Officer Ray Holt has spent his entire career learning exactly how deep that silence goes.Holt didn't set out to become the kind of cop who looks away. He tells himself it happened slowly - a favor here, a report that never got filed, a witness who "changed her mind." Enough small compromises, made for what felt like the right reasons at the time, until one day he woke up and realized he'd built a career on knowing when not to see.Then the ice breaks on Miller's Creek, and it surfaces a body that was never supposed to be found.The victim has a name Holt recognizes. A connection to a case he closed years ago - one he told himself was finished, buried, done. As the investigation creeps forward, inch by reluctant inch, Holt realizes the body isn't just evidence. It's a message. Someone in Marrow Falls wants the past unburied, and they're willing to burn down everything the town has built to make sure it stays that way.With a state investigator breathing down his neck, old friends turning cold, and a mounting sense that the people he trusted most had a hand in what happened, Holt is forced into a reckoning he's spent two decades avoiding. Every question he asks peels back another layer of a town built on complicity - the sheriff who taught him the rules, the councilwoman who funds the silence, the childhood friend who may know more than she's letting on.The Quiet County is a slow-burning, atmospheric crime novel steeped in the tradition of Scandinavian noir - fog-bound, morally complex, and unflinching in its portrait of a community that chose comfort over justice. This is not a story of a lone hero cracking a case. It's a story about complicity: how ordinary people become accomplices to the things they refuse to name, and what it costs to finally speak.For readers who loved the atmosphere of Jo Nesbo, the moral weight of Tana French, and the small-town dread of Broadchurch and Mare of Easttown, The Quiet County delivers a slow-burn mystery that trades car chases for creeping dread - and easy answers for the uncomfortable truth that justice in a small town is never as blind as it claims to be.As Ray Holt gets closer to the truth, he has to decide what kind of man he wants to be when the town he swore to protect turns out to be the thing he needs protecting from. Because in Marrow Falls, the real crime was never the body in the creek.It was everyone who knew, and said nothing.A haunting, character-driven thriller about silence, complicity, and the price of the truth - perfect for fans of literary crime fiction and Nordic noir. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - A body in the reservoir. A ten-day deadline. A ledger that leads to the sheriff's father. In Marrow Falls, Deputy Callan Reyes must choose between protecting his dying father and finally telling the truth about who this county has always been.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Some towns don't forget. They just learn to keep quiet.Marrow Falls looks like the kind of place people dream about escaping to - pine-covered hills, a slow-moving river, a Main Street where everyone waves and nobody locks their doors. But beneath the postcard stillness runs a current of silence that has protected the town's most powerful families for twenty years, and Officer Ray Holt has spent his entire career learning exactly how deep that silence goes.Holt didn't set out to become the kind of cop who looks away. He tells himself it happened slowly - a favor here, a report that never got filed, a witness who "changed her mind." Enough small compromises, made for what felt like the right reasons at the time, until one day he woke up and realized he'd built a career on knowing when not to see.Then the ice breaks on Miller's Creek, and it surfaces a body that was never supposed to be found.The victim has a name Holt recognizes. A connection to a case he closed years ago - one he told himself was finished, buried, done. As the investigation creeps forward, inch by reluctant inch, Holt realizes the body isn't just evidence. It's a message. Someone in Marrow Falls wants the past unburied, and they're willing to burn down everything the town has built to make sure it stays that way.With a state investigator breathing down his neck, old friends turning cold, and a mounting sense that the people he trusted most had a hand in what happened, Holt is forced into a reckoning he's spent two decades avoiding. Every question he asks peels back another layer of a town built on complicity - the sheriff who taught him the rules, the councilwoman who funds the silence, the childhood friend who may know more than she's letting on.The Quiet County is a slow-burning, atmospheric crime novel steeped in the tradition of Scandinavian noir - fog-bound, morally complex, and unflinching in its portrait of a community that chose comfort over justice. This is not a story of a lone hero cracking a case. It's a story about complicity: how ordinary people become accomplices to the things they refuse to name, and what it costs to finally speak.For readers who loved the atmosphere of Jo Nesbo, the moral weight of Tana French, and the small-town dread of Broadchurch and Mare of Easttown, The Quiet County delivers a slow-burn mystery that trades car chases for creeping dread - and easy answers for the uncomfortable truth that justice in a small town is never as blind as it claims to be.As Ray Holt gets closer to the truth, he has to decide what kind of man he wants to be when the town he swore to protect turns out to be the thing he needs protecting from. Because in Marrow Falls, the real crime was never the body in the creek.It was everyone who knew, and said nothing.A haunting, character-driven thriller about silence, complicity, and the price of the truth - perfect for fans of literary crime fiction and Nordic noir. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. The Quiet County | Michael Bender | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Michael K. Bender | EAN 9798256285784 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.