Hollow Bones: Some truths are buried for a reason.

By Claire Dunmore

A small-town detective. Anonymous letters. Deaths predicted with surgical accuracy.

When Detective Nora Finch transferred to Harrowfield, Oregon - population 4,200 - she expected nothing to happen. A quiet town. A quiet desk. A quiet life after the Portland case that cost a witness her life and Nora her career.

Then the letters start arriving.

Cream-colored envelopes. Fountain pen ink. No return address. Each one predicts a death - name, method, and timeframe - with impossible precision. A retired principal's heart attack. A diner owner's fatal fall. A young deputy's suicide.

Every prediction comes true.

As Nora races to identify the letter writer before the next envelope arrives, she uncovers a secret that has been hiding in plain sight for forty years: the town's beloved physician has been cataloguing every resident's vulnerabilities - their medical risks, their psychological fractures, their proximity to death - in files that read like prophecy.

Someone has found those files. Someone is using them. And the line between predicting a death and ensuring one is thinner than Nora ever imagined.

Hollow Bones is a gripping small-town mystery about the secrets we keep, the people we trust, and the devastating question at the heart of every community: What does it mean to watch someone walk toward the edge and choose not to speak?

For readers who loved The Silent Patient, In the Woods, and Sharp Objects.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GN99TN8J
• ISBN13: 9798248197989
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"