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“You’re safe, Stride. I found the body at the Deeps. I buried him.”

Jonathan
Stride’s best friend, Steve Garske, makes a shocking deathbed
confession: he protected Stride by covering up a murder. Hours later,
the police dig up Steve’s yard and find a body with a bullet hole in its
skull.

Stride is pretty sure he knows who it is. Seven years ago,
an out-of-town reporter disappeared while investigating anonymous
allegations of rape against a prominent politician. Back then, the
police believed that the reporter drowned at a dangerous swimming hole
called the Deeps … but the discovery of the body changes everything. Now
Stride’s partner, Maggie Bei, is forced to ask Stride an uncomfortable
question: Did you kill him?

Stride is obviously hiding
things. He was the last person to see the reporter alive. And he admits
lying to Maggie about that meeting, but won’t tell her why. With
suspicion in the murder pointing at him, Stride finds himself off the
case and on leave from the Duluth Police.

His only ally in
clearing his name is his wife, Serena, who retraces the reporter’s
investigation into the explosive allegations. The clues all point to a
hot Duluth summer years earlier that everyone in town would prefer to
forget.

Someone was willing to kill rather than let those long-ago
secrets come out, and the suspect with the strongest motive … is
Stride.