Confessions of the Dead Patterson James (2024)

Hollows Bend is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend visitors come to admire the autumn leaves and have breakfast at the Stairway Diner. Its crime rate is zero, a point of pride for Sheriff Ellie Pritchett. That changes when a mysterious teenage girl arrives. The sheriff and her deputy investigate, but none of the locals knows her, and she cannot, or will not, answer their questions. She will not even give them her name. While the girl is held in protective custody, the officers are called to several crime scenes, leading them ever closer to a lake outside town that appears on no map.