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The Woman Who Didn't Drown
Paperback
Publisher: Juliette Trott
Published: May 22 2026
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
SHE HAS A SECRET.
They plan to make her die for it. When a senator's wife is pulled from a lake and ruled a suicide, Detective Cal Rourke sees what no one else wants to admit the scene is staged. The ink on the note is dry. The pressure to close the case is immediate. And someone powerful is already rewriting the truth.
Professor Mara Sloane arrives at a lakeside mansion for a private seminar that promises obscene money and zero paper trail. But the house is watching. A stalker tracks her movements in real time. And a message from a blocked number drags her back to a buried scandal from 2009-one she's spent fifteen years trying to outrun.
As more bodies surface, Cal uncovers a pattern tied to a sealed whistleblower file and a conspiracy built on kompromat, coercion, and manufactured despair. Mara's past makes her the perfect scapegoat. Cal's reputation makes him disposable.
Everyone is lying.
Anyone could be the killer.
And survival may require becoming the villain.
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