Crystal: Case 26

By Blair Howard

She never left the party.

She was nineteen and she was dead.

For twenty-five years she lay under the concrete waiting for someone to find her.

When a demolition crew breaks open a concrete slab on Chattanooga's Southside, they find a young woman's bones, buried the night before the foundation was poured a quarter of a century ago. And Kate Gazzara catches the coldest case of her career.

The girl, a waitress working a graduation party at a powerful family's riverfront boathouse, disappeared. It was the last time anyone saw her. Six of her fellow partygoers swore she walked off into the dark and climbed into a stranger's truck. But she never left the party.

Now Kate has six people guarding a lie, a mother who never stopped waiting, and a family rich enough to bury this girl all over again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8F8PSTF
• ISBN13: 9798186688396
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"