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The Body in the Wall
Paperback
Publisher: Dashwood Mythos Press
Published: Mar 20 2027
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
A body hidden for sixty-six years.
A secret someone was willing to kill to keep buried.
When a renovation at the Smithsonian Castle exposes human remains sealed inside a stone wall, archivist Dr. Eleanora Ellie Dashwood expects a historical puzzle-perhaps an overlooked tragedy from another century.
Instead, she uncovers a murder.
The skeleton was deliberately braced into the masonry and hidden in 1964, at the height of the Cold War. Assigned to the investigation, FBI Special Agent Oliver Hale quickly learns the victim was Simon Vane, a brilliant young Supreme Court law clerk who vanished without explanation decades ago.
At the time, his disappearance barely made the news.
But someone made sure his body-and whatever he discovered-was never meant to be found.
As Ellie and Oliver dig through forgotten archives, sealed institutional records, and long-ignored files, they begin to piece together the final days of Simon Vane's life. What they uncover points to something far more dangerous than a decades-old crime. Because Simon wasn't just another missing clerk.
He had stumbled onto something powerful enough to destroy reputations, careers-and possibly far more.
Now, sixty-six years later, the truth is beginning to surface.
And someone is still determined to keep it buried.
As the investigation leads deeper into the quiet corridors of Washington's most powerful institutions, Ellie and Oliver realize that the past isn't simply history-it's a carefully guarded secret. One that powerful people have spent decades protecting.
Because Simon Vane didn't just disappear.
He found something.
Something worth killing for.
The Body in the Wall is the gripping first installment of the Dashwood Chronicles-a suspenseful tale where the archives of the past hold the keys to forgotten crimes, hidden conspiracies, and the mysteries still unfolding today.
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