Stillwater
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 4 2026
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
When a body rises from the river in the small town of Stillwater, the story arrives already finished.
It was an accident.
The town agrees.
The paper confirms it.
But Sophie Wynn doesn't trust conclusions that settle too quickly.
Called back to the place she once fled, Sophie is asked to do what local law enforcement cannot: notice what everyone else has learned to overlook. The silences. The edits. The careful way grief is shaped to protect the living.
As Sophie retraces the final hours of a man everyone thought they knew, she uncovers something more unsettling than murder - a system of quiet permissions, where influence matters more than innocence and the most dangerous person in the room is the one who decides what gets told.
Stillwater is a tense, atmospheric mystery thriller for readers who love true-crime realism, slow-burn suspense, and investigations where the truth is as fragile as it is dangerous.
Because sometimes the truth doesn't disappear.
It's buried.
And sometimes the river gives it back.
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