Grandma Rosalie Kept Her Secrets

When true crime podcaster Maya Reeves returns to Hollow Creek after eight years away, she expects to find her grandmother Rosalie slipping into dementia. Instead, she discovers a house transformed into an obsessive shrine to unsolved murder. The Harvest Fair Five—women who vanished in October 1987—have haunted this town for decades, and they've consumed Rosalie Blackwood, the brilliant detective who failed to find them.But as Maya begins cataloging her grandmother's files for a new podcast series, she uncovers something that turns her blood cold. Rosalie didn't fail to solve the case. She buried it. Hidden among decades of investigation notes are evidence logs that were never filed, witness statements that disappeared, and DNA samples that could have identified a killer. Every deliberate omission points to one horrifying conclusion: Rosalie knew who took those women, and she let him walk free.Now Maya is trapped between loyalty to the grandmother who raised her and justice for five women whose families never got closure. As she applies modern forensic techniques to the old evidence, a pattern emerges that's more terrifying than she imagined. The disappearances didn't stop in 1987—they just became harder to connect. And someone in Hollow Creek is watching Maya's investigation very carefully, someone who has spent thirty-five years believing their secrets died with Rosalie's silence.In this pulse-pounding thriller, Katherine Lamb weaves a story about the lies we tell to protect the people we love, and the price of truth when family legacy collides with justice. Maya must decide how far she'll go to expose the darkness in her own bloodline—before she becomes another name in a killer's collection. Some secrets are kept for protection, but others are kept because the truth is unforgivable.