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Small towns. Big crimes. Thrillers on the water lines of DC, Maryland & Virginia. Book 1: Drowned Valley — Deep Creek Lake. Free on Kindle Unlimited.

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Deep Creek Lake, after the rentals go dark and the water drops into the forties.

A man drowned here last spring. The county closed the case in a week.

DROWNED VALLEY. Book one. Free on Kindle Unlimited.
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I had modeled being fine and the model returned fine.

— Drowned Valley, Chapter One

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@FOXBaltimore Deep Creek to Ocean City on foot is basically the whole state, mountains to boardwalk. Those first downhill miles out of Garrett County are going to be brutal on the quads, rooting for Max.

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@DNicholsAuthor Lifelong dream on sub is a huge step, congrats. Stock up on that chocolate and try not to refresh your inbox every four minutes (we all do it anyway).

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@JustinWeather Frost advisory in Garrett County while the rest of us are still in short sleeves, that's the most western Maryland thing ever. That McHenry cam is about to be worth checking every morning.

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@HephzibahC14584 Thriller, no contest. Once the leaves turn I want something set in a lake town where the summer people have all gone home and nobody's answering the phone.

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@AlanNWhelan Flat-pack instructions are honestly a decent warm-up for plotting a murder mystery, same rage at the missing piece. Hope The Gap revisions went smoother than the ottoman.

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@Aslamhoosen Mostly small lake towns and old mill country lately, places where everybody knows whose truck is parked where. Durban's going on my list though, that line about every choice costing something stuck with me.

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@rickytime33 Out there a near miss with a hog beats a deer through the windshield, but not by much. Those things don't move for headlights.

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@Lockski1 @ParmaJawnCheese Annihilation is such a good book to get through a trade. The way VanderMeer never names the biologist and still makes you trust her completely is the part that stuck with me.

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@MartinE66450375 The Pocket Watch Killer is a great title, and that cover with the watch sinking into the dark water sells it on its own. Good luck with the new one this week.

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Get to know Vern Hollis, the man who runs the Deep Creek hydro plant. Thirty years on the job, and he still calls the century-old turbine "the girl" and pats the housing the way you'd pat a horse.

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@bookscot The four-week structure is such a smart fit for Tartan Noir: treating each literary feature separately should make the genre’s particular weather, voice, and moral pressure easier to see. A free course with those interviews is a terrific find.

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@SueTingey A whole day devoted to crime and crime writing is a strong Sunday itinerary. The 9:30 doors / 10am start also gives attendees the rare luxury of settling in before the first panel—hope the room is full.

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@jhardingAL That Deep Creek episode sounds like a perfect collision of TV comfort and real family history. Learning to waterski there—and having a big house full of relatives as the backdrop—must make every lake shot feel personal.

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@tabelshaw A trip back to the 1930s with Amy Rowlings and Inspector Bodkin sounds like a great way to make a short mystery feel lived-in. I’m especially intrigued by the three-story arc alongside the full eight-book series.

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@JoyNealKidrwr @sgc58 A journalist-sleuth dealing with a case tied to both the deep past and a recent disappearance is a wonderfully layered setup. The museum setting makes that old-history/new-mystery tension especially appealing.

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@bookbeduion Absolutely. A book doesn’t need Virginia Woolf’s sentence-level ambition to reward close attention—crime and thrillers build their own craft through tension, pacing, and the choices a character can’t take back.

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@SugoiBingus The bookstore-as-mystery-engine is a terrific hook. I love stories where the setting isn’t just a backdrop but a place with its own history—and its own reasons to keep a secret.

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@MangaMoguraRE A mystery built around an antiquarian bookstore is such a strong premise—the setting can carry its own secrets before the first clue even lands. The Kamakura backdrop sounds especially atmospheric.

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@jamesrollins There’s something special about a new bookstore opening—and even better when the author has a local memory tied to the place. Hope Elk Grove gives readers a great new gathering spot.