Frame By Frame: The Wedding Tape That Reopened a Murdered Past

By Adele Kirkland

The police said Hannah Fenwick had already left town. The wedding tape proves she was still trapped inside the house.

A buried cold case. A missing girl in the background of a wedding video. A small town that trusted the wrong story for twenty-nine years.

Frame by Frame is an atmospheric, documentary-style crime thriller filled with small-town secrets, investigative journalism, hidden evidence, and a decades-old mystery that refuses to stay buried. On June 22, 1996, seventy-eight guests gathered at Sloane House to watch Rebecca Sloane walk down the aisle. The cameras followed the bride. The guests faced the flower-covered arbor.

No one looked toward the third-floor window behind them.

Twenty-nine years later, a hidden Hi8 cassette is recovered from the studio of a dead wedding videographer. When Millhaven Record editor Marian Holt reviews the raw, unedited footage, she sees something no one noticed on the day itself.Eighteen-year-old Hannah Fenwick stands behind the glass.One hand raised.A shadow moving behind her.Then the curtain closes.
According to the official investigation, Hannah had already stolen money from the wedding and boarded a westbound bus. The timecode proves otherwise. At 4:17 p.m., she was still inside Sloane House.
Marian has spent years reporting on Millhaven's carefully preserved version of itself. Now, as she reopens the newspaper archives and revisits the town's most infamous missing-person case, old witness statements begin to contradict one another. Evidence is missing. Timelines shift. Memories that once seemed certain start to look rehearsed.

And the more Marian questions the original investigation, the clearer it becomes that Hannah was not simply overlooked.
Someone wanted the town to believe she had left.

Someone shaped the evidence, guided the witnesses, and built a story strong enough to survive for decades.

But if Hannah was still inside Sloane House while the wedding continued below, who was standing behind her-and what were they trying to keep hidden?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HB8SFZNR
• ISBN13: 9798188766801
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"