in the waning light by loreth anne white

Desperate for clues, Meg digs through her family’s files. One of the few people to welcome Meg back is Blake Sutton, her high-school sweetheart and the marina’s new owner. Shrouded in cold, brooding fog, the close-knit coastal town harbors dark secrets and suspicious residents.

But when a television-show host presses her to tackle the one story everyone claims she cannot write-the story of her own family’s destruction-her perfect life shatters.ĭetermined to finally face her past, Meg returns to her hometown of Shelter Bay. A bestselling true-crime writer, Meg has money, fame, and a wealthy fiancé. And all have so much more to lose now than they did when they were just 16.Īs Jane begins to peel back the layers and the closely guarded secrets, the impact of her investigation ripples through the community, rips through families, and fractures the tight-knit group who must once again band together to keep their stories straight.Two decades after her sister’s brutal attack and murder, Meg Brogan has finally found happiness…or so it appears. None of them expected the dark chapter in their past to ever surface again, not now, especially after all these years. The case is handed to veteran homicide cop Jane Munro who has just been sidelined to a cold case/special investigations unit of essentially one because of troubles of her own, but as Jane finds evidence of murder, the decades-old cold case quickly goes hot, pulling into focus a group of six old school friends who made a pledge one September night 47 years ago.Īll are now highly-respected and affluent members of their communities and all but one have richly extended families. When human bones are discovered beneath an old, wooden A-frame chapel in the woods, evidence at the scene suggest the remains could be decades old. Not the official blurb, but here’s the gist:

My hope is that readers who enjoyed Beneath Devil’s Bridge, the Patient’s Secret, and The Maid’s Diary, and who love television series like Unforgotten, Mare of Easttown, The Killing, Boardertown, and Happy Valley, will love this one!

Meet THE UNQUIET BONES: A true-crime-inspired, atmospheric, Nordic-noir-toned psychological suspense wrapped in a procedural/investigative thriller and told in colliding narratives.

In the waning light by loreth anne white