
Some towns don't forget. They just learn to keep quiet. Marrow Falls looks like the kind of place people dream about escaping to - pine-covered hills, a slow-moving river, a Main Street where everyone waves and nobody locks their doors. But beneath the postcard...

The water was low the morning they pulled Ana Vance out of the Marrow Falls reservoir, and Sheriff Wade Holt called it before the fog had even lifted: an accident, a girl who'd had too much to drink and lost her footing on the dock. Case closed by Friday. Deputy...