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The Silent Marsh: Truth does not disappear. It waits.

The Silent Marsh: Truth does not disappear. It waits.

Paperback

Series: The Blackmere Conscience, Book 1

Mystery & Thriller

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ISBN13: 9798196777219
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Silent Marsh is a dark literary mystery about buried violence, inherited silence, and the price of protecting powerful people.

When London solicitor Margot Ashcombe returns to her hometown of Blackmere after her father's sudden illness, she expects discomfort. What she does not expect is the disappearance of sixteen-year-old Ivy Turner, a girl the town has already decided to stop searching for.

Blackmere is the kind of place that survives on reputation. Old money. Quiet arrangements. The unspoken understanding that certain families are protected no matter what they do. When Margot begins asking questions about Ivy's assault accusation against Oliver Whitcombe, heir to Blackmere's most influential family, she finds missing police statements, altered evidence, frightened witnesses, and a pattern stretching back decades.

Then Ivy is found alive beneath the marshes in a network of abandoned flood tunnels.

As the investigation explodes into national news, Margot is forced to confront the one truth she has spent her life avoiding: her own father may have helped bury the case.

Atmospheric, emotionally intelligent, and sharply observant, The Silent Marsh is a slow-burning psychological mystery about institutional corruption, moral compromise, and the stories communities tell themselves to survive.

Truth does not disappear. It waits.

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