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The Low Water: A Small-Town Thriller
Paperback
Series: Hollister Fork, Book 5
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The worst drought in forty years has dropped the Hollister Fork reservoir to a level no one alive has seen - and out on the cracked mud where the water used to be, a boy fishing the shallows puts his hand on the roof of a car.
There's a man still belted inside it.
The town has a story ready before the car is even winched out: some drunk who drove off years back and left town for good. It goes down easy with the morning coffee. But the car sat on ground that was dry lakebed the last time the water fell this far - a place the whole town gathered on a low-water summer decades ago - and the man inside didn't drive off any road. Sheriff Cassidy Mara married into Hollister Fork; she never learned the story everyone else grew up believing. So she's the only one who keeps asking why a whole town goes quiet at the same moment, and what it is they've all agreed, for thirty years, not to say.
What the low water gives back is not a simple drowning. It's a bargain the town made on a summer shore and has been keeping ever since - and the closer Cassidy comes to the truth, the harder the question underneath it becomes. Because the man in the water was guilty of something terrible. And that doesn't answer the only question that matters: what a town becomes when it decides some things are better left under.
The Low Water is the fifth Hollister Fork novel - a slow-burn small-town thriller for readers of William Kent Krueger and Jane Harper. Each book stands alone.
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