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Below the Ridge ( Book Two of the Black Hollow Cases): The mines were abandoned. The roads beneath them weren't. (A Police Procedural Horror Novel)
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Series: The Black Hollow Cases, Book 2
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The mines were abandoned decades ago.
The roads beneath them weren't.
After the discovery beneath Black Hollow exposes a hidden network of abandoned mine passages, Calder County, West Virginia, becomes the center of a sprawling investigation. Evidence recovered underground connects missing people, stolen police property, altered maps, and crimes stretching back generations. But investigators quickly discover that Black Hollow was never an isolated operation.
The underground road keeps going.
When Wythe County Deputy Aaron Bell investigates an abandoned truck on a forgotten logging road, he finds something impossible: identification belonging to a man who disappeared in Calder County more than thirty years earlier. Moments later, Bell vanishes beside an unlisted mine entrance.
His cruiser is left running.
His weapon is abandoned.
And his body camera records a man who is supposed to have been dead since 1989.
Detective Evan Rourke and the Black Hollow task force race beneath the ridge to find Bell alive. What they uncover is far larger than a missing-deputy case. Hidden passages cross county lines. Evidence from multiple sheriff's departments has been stored underground. Official mine maps contradict one another. Old crimes have been manipulated using property stolen from police evidence rooms.
Someone has been using the abandoned mines as a secret transportation network for decades.
And the people protecting it understand exactly where police jurisdiction ends.
As Rourke follows the tunnels deeper into the mountains, the investigation forces two counties to confront buried corruption, falsified deaths, missing evidence, and a disturbing question:
How many people who were declared dead simply disappeared below the ridge?
BELOW THE RIDGE is Book Two of THE BLACK HOLLOW CASES, a dark, atmospheric police procedural horror series blending missing-person investigations, Appalachian isolation, cold-case mystery, underground claustrophobia, and crime-thriller suspense.
The mines were abandoned. The roads beneath them weren't.
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