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The Convenient Story
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 5 2026
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Three years ago, Del Shaw said one name on the radio that she wasn't sure of - and a man spent four hundred and eleven days paying for her certainty.
Now she runs a diner in a town that doesn't know who she used to be.
When a lobsterman named Gary Fenn washes up dead on the rocks below Haddon Cove, the whole town settles on the easy answer within a day: a dockside fight, a hotheaded deckhand, case closed. Del believes it too - right up until she doesn't. A photograph that doesn't match the timeline. A warden who's been documenting something for three years and never had anywhere safe to send it. A widow's audit request, filed fourteen months before her own husband's accident.
The convenient story is always the one nobody has to work for. Del knows exactly what that story costs, because she's the one who told it before - about the wrong man, in front of a very different kind of audience.
She isn't wrong twice. But finding out costs her the one thing she came to Haddon Cove to leave behind: her own name, said out loud, on the record, where anyone still watching her from three years ago can hear it.
A gripping, character-driven thriller about the stories we choose to believe because the truth is inconvenient - and the people who pay for that choice.
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