Lelemontgomery
On Christmas morning in 2000, the quiet town of Woodsview wakes up to a nightmare.
Twenty-year-old Jake Fuller, the mayor's son and a recent Cambridge student, is found dead at the edge of Lake Wren. The signs point to murder. Detective Ronald Kling and his new partner, Finn Morales, quickly discover that Jake wasn't drowned in the lake-his body was placed there after his death. As the investigation unfolds, secrets hidden beneath Woodsview's peaceful surface begin to emerge. Jake had returned to town months earlier without attracting attention, and he seems to have been digging into something that someone desperately wanted buried.
Despite months of investigation, the case eventually goes cold.
Twenty-five years later, Stevie Bell arrives at Ellingham Academy for her final year determined to solve another mystery. Instead, she stumbles across the forgotten Woodsview murder. The more she researches Jake Fuller's death, the more she realizes that the official story doesn't add up. Missing evidence, contradictory witness statements, and a series of strange events leading up to Christmas 2000 suggest that someone got away with murder.
As Stevie follows the trail left behind by Ronald Kling, she uncovers connections between Jake's death and a secret that has been hidden for decades. But someone knows exactly what happened on that Christmas morning-and they're willing to do whatever it takes to make sure the truth stays buried.
Told through alternating timelines, this mystery follows two investigations separated by twenty-five years, as Stevie Bell races to solve the one case that Ronald Kling never could.