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A spine-tingling new suspense-thriller from bestselling author Daniel G. Miller that will keep your heart racing to the last page.
SOME MEMORIES WERE NEVER MEANT TO STAY BURIED.
When Charlotte Hoffman's picture-perfect career implodes overnight, she retreats to the one place she swore she'd never return: Big Island, Minnesota. Home to her childhood best friend, Olivia Parker, and the place where her life first fell apart.
Eighteen years ago, tragedy struck, and Charlotte's blamed herself for that bloody night ever since. Now she's back, staying with the Parkers in their isolated lakeside home, surrounded by dark woods shrouded in mist and the decaying remains of a long-abandoned amusement park.
But something isn't right.
The Parkers' young twin girls whisper about ghosts in the trees. Threatening notes appear on doors. An old carousel screams in the wind. And every night the island claims another victim.
As Charlotte wades ever-deeper into danger, she can't shake the feeling that someone brought her back to the isolated island for a reason.
Someone who wants to finish what was started all those years ago.
A MISSING GIRL. AN ORPHANAGE FILLED WITH SECRETS.
Hazel wants a new life.
She's thirty years old, single, and her private investigation business is months away from folding.
Her luck takes a turn when Madeline Hemsley, a mysterious socialite, pays Hazel a visit with an offer too enticing to resist. An orphan girl has disappeared from a children's home—The Orphanage By The Lake, as the locals call it—and Madeline wants Hazel to find her.
At first glance, it appears to be a standard runaway case, but as Hazel plunges into the investigation, she finds signs of something more: unexplained blood stains, cryptic symbols, sinister figures shadowing her every move. The more she digs, the more she realizes that The Orphanage By The Lake holds terrifying secrets, and even worse…
…so does Madeline.
A DEAD BODY. A MYSTERIOUS RED LETTER.
Hazel has everything she wants.
Business is booming at her boutique private investigation firm. She's dating the man of her dreams. Even her perpetually skeptical mother seems impressed.
Then the NYPD finds a beloved neighborhood priest dead along with a mysterious red letter.
Hazel investigates the murder as a favor to an old friend and discovers that the priest wasn't the only recent murder victim to receive a red letter...and one victim has ties to a psychopath from a past life that Hazel thought she had buried.
One by one, the red letters continue to appear, and with every letter, another killing, each more mysterious than the last.
As Hazel closes in on the killer, the killer closes in on her, and Hazel begins to question everything she thought she knew about herself and the people around her. Even worse, Hazel discovers that the only way to find the truth is to open one more...
RED LETTER
"Eerie and unsettling in all the best ways, Daniel G. Miller’s Buried in the Woods Below is a stick-to-your bones thriller that will stay with you long after you reach the end. Miller is a rising star, and I can’t wait to see what he writes next" ― Jennifer Hillier, bestselling author of Things We Do in the Dark
“Gripping, tense, and absolutely unputdownable. This book won't just take you for a twisted rollercoaster ride—it'll make you question yourself at every turn.” —Noelle W. Ihli, USA Today bestselling author of Ask for Andrea
"A dynamite read... A thrill ride with no seatbelt but what an incredible view." – Junot Díaz, New York Times bestselling author & Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"Irresistible" ― James Patterson, New York Times bestselling author
"Twisting and impossible to put down, The Orphanage by the Lake will thrill any fan of psychological mysteries." ― Darcy Coates, USA Today bestselling author of Dead of Winter
"Engaging and deftly paced, readers should buckle up for a thriller that does not disappoint. Miller’s gripping and imaginative debut novel is thoroughly engrossing. One of the most promising authors I’ve come across in a long while."-Gary McAvoy, Bestselling Author of The Magdalene Deception
"Daniel Miller's Buried in the Woods Below is heartfelt and haunting. The characters and their various fates will stick with you. Bravo, he's done it again." ―T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times bestselling author
"In Buried in the Woods Below, Daniel G. Miller delivers a psychological thriller that tightens its grip slowly, then refuses to let go. The prose is sharp, propulsive, and deliberately destabilizing, immersing the reader in an atmosphere of dread where nothing feels safe for long. As the story deepens, the novel reveals a brutal edge, unafraid to cross lines and force a reckoning with denial and consequence. This book won’t just unsettle you. It’ll leave a bruise." ― Carter Wilson, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of Tell Me What You Did
"Sharp and surprising, Buried in the Woods Below hooked me from page one. Rich in atmosphere, with the past rotting around Charlotte, Daniel G. Miller takes us on a deft journey into friendship, the past, and why it's worth unearthing secrets" ― Chelsea Conradt, USA Today bestselling author of The Farmhouse
"Sharp and surprising, Buried in the Woods Below hooked me from page one. Rich in atmosphere, with the past rotting around Charlotte, Daniel G. Miller takes us on a deft journey into friendship, the past, and why it's worth unearthing secrets" ― Chelsea Conradt, USA Today bestselling author of The Farmhouse
"If you like your thrillers with a twist, don't pass up Buried in the Woods Below. This slow-burn, nerve-wracking, atmospheric thriller will pull the rug right out from under you. I still can't get over that twist. I absolutely loved it." ― Natalie Barelli, bestselling author of The Housewife

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