Silence on Cold River: A Novel

By: Casey Dunn

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Synopsis: Three people cross paths in the north Georgia woods one night, setting into motion a race to catch a ruthless and chillingly inventive serial killer.On a run through the woods outside her north Georgia hometown, defense attorney Ama Chaplin encounters a mysterious hiker and recognizes him, too late, as a sociopath she successfully defended when he was a teenager. In the intervening seventeen years, Ama changed her name and moved to Atlanta, anxious to put her past behind her. Michael Walton, her young client, grew into a ruthless and inventive murderer. And now that he&’s caught her, he can put a twisted, years-in-the-making plot into motion. Neither of them knows that someone else saw her go into the woods alone: Eddie Stevens, whose daughter Hazel vanished on the same spot a year ago. The police think she ran away. Eddie believes the truth is much worse. Grieving and desperate, he&’d planned to kill himself to return attention to his daughter&’s cold case, but he can&’t shake the feeling that something happened to Ama, the runner he saw disappear into the trees. When she doesn&’t come back out, he heads into the woods with a loaded gun to check on her. Meanwhile, the local police department&’s newest detective connects the dots between two cold cases and begins to suspect he&’s dealing with a serial killer—but time is running out to save Ama, and he&’ll need to make some unlikely allies to face down the dangers lurking in the woods.