The Things We Bury

Wes Pritchard knows his wife is hiding something. He just doesn't know how much.

A piece of evidence turns up inside the Pritchard home, carrying a connection to a case Wes was never supposed to bring through the front door.

Then human remains are discovered beneath the abandoned Hawthorne Ridge youth program.

The body has been there for eleven years.

For Wes, the cold case should be straightforward: identify the dead man, find out who put him in the ground, and follow the evidence wherever it leads. But Hawthorne Ridge has ties to names Lauren has never told him, places she has never mentioned, and a past she has spent years keeping separate from their life together.

Lauren knows the truth is closing in.

She is trying to stop lying to the husband she loves while facing what honesty may cost her. Because Wes isn't only investigating a buried murder anymore. He is beginning to understand that the woman he married may be connected to far more than he ever imagined.

And the closer he gets to the truth about Hawthorne Ridge, the harder it becomes to separate the detective looking for answers from the husband terrified of finding them.

He has spent his career believing evidence over instinct.

This time, the evidence may lead home.

The Things We Bury is the second novel in the Blackwater Alibi Trilogy, a psychological crime thriller about marriage, guilt, justice, and what happens when loving someone and believing them are no longer the same thing.