The Town That Solved Itself

von Tim Bryant

294 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In Pine Needle, trouble doesn't disappear. It gets handled.For eleven years, Clara May Wesson has been the woman everyone relies on at First Baptist Church-the keeper of keys, schedules, secrets, prayer requests, casserole dishes, and all the little emergencies other people would rather hand to somebody else.Then Earl Duggan turns up dead.By the time Clara hears the news, Pine Needle is already doing what it does best: deciding what happened before anybody actually knows.But Earl left behind questions.A missing ring.A locked room above the church.A strange ledger.A bell rung after dark.And evidence of an unofficial system of "mercy" that has operated quietly for years-helping people through debts, scandals, mistakes, and desperate moments.The help was real.So was the price.As Clara begins pulling at the loose threads of Earl's final days, she discovers that the hardest truth may not be who hurt him. It may be how many good people learned to look away, how easily gratitude can become obligation, and what happens when a town decides that protecting itself is the same thing as protecting its people.With Sheriff Nolan trying to separate evidence from rumor, Earl's widow demanding the truth no matter how ugly it becomes, and Pine Needle already searching for one convenient person to blame, Clara finds herself in the familiar position of being handed everybody else's burden.This time, she may finally refuse to carry it.THE TOWN THAT SOLVED ITSELF is the first Pine Needle Mystery-a sharply observed, darkly funny small-town mystery about secrets, loyalty, faith, power, and the dangerous distance between helping someone and owning them.Because sometimes a town doesn't hide the truth.Sometimes it files it, feeds it, prays over it-and calls the problem solved.

• ISBN: 9798199593670
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp