The Seventh Key

A Small-Town Mystery Thriller

von Preston Winter

496 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Seventeen missed calls. Seven hidden keys. One date her dead mother expected her to understand.When Claire Simmons returns to the small Montana town she left years ago, she plans to do what she does best: sort through her late mother's belongings, settle the estate, and leave.Then she finds a phone number written on the back of an old sheriff's business card.The same number called seventeen times in the days before her mother died.And when Claire calls it back, a frightened woman asks a question she cannot forget: Did Evelyn leave you anything?Hidden behind a basement wall, Claire finds seven keys.Six are labeled with women's names. One belongs to Rebecca Vale, a local woman who disappeared without a trace in 2008.The seventh is labeled with Claire's own name.On the back is a date: October 17.As Claire begins tracing the keys through an old motel, newspaper archives, forgotten police records, and the secrets her mother spent decades protecting, a seventeen-year-old cold case starts to look very different.So does the death of Claire's father.And the closer she gets to understanding what her mother left behind, the harder it becomes to know which truths were hidden to protect people-and which were buried to protect the person responsible.Because in Pine Haven, almost everyone is telling the truth.Just not all of it.The Seventh Key is an atmospheric small-town mystery thriller about family secrets, a long-buried disappearance, and the dangerous difference between what happened and what can be proved.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174807211
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published