Below the Mississippi: A Southern Gothic Psychological Crime Thriller

By JAY R. ROBBIN

BELOW THE MISSISSIPPISeventeen years ago, a boy disappeared beneath Mercy Bridge in the small river town of Blackwater, Mississippi.The town buried the story.The river kept the truth.When former investigator Marcus Hale returns to Blackwater after a brutal murder shocks the community, old memories begin resurfacing alongside bodies pulled from the Mississippi River. What first appears to be a small-town crime soon unravels into something far darker - hidden tunnels beneath the river, missing children, buried secrets, generational corruption, and a terrifying conspiracy that stretches far beyond Blackwater itself.As perception shifts and every new revelation changes the meaning of the last, Marcus is forced deeper into a nightmare where nobody is fully innocent, the dead refuse to stay buried, and the river seems to remember everything.Dark, cinematic, psychologically layered, and filled with relentless suspense, Below the Mississippi is a Southern Gothic thriller about guilt, trauma, survival, and the horrifying things societies choose not to see.Some truths sink.Some survive.And some rivers never stop carrying the dead.BY JAY R. ROBBIN

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H35QLH8D
• ISBN13: 9798198894860
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"