The Unraised
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“The water forgives nothing. It kept the car exactly as it went down.”
Kath Verran recovers what deep water keeps. Eleven years after Isla Cathrow's car left the road into a flooded quarry — ruled misadventure, closed, forgotten — a coroner's review sends Kath down into the black cold she has spent nine years refusing, the same still water that holds her own brother in a mine no one could reach. She maps the wreck blind, by touch. And every switch and gear she brings up out of the dark says the same impossible thing: the verdict was wrong, and someone has known it all along.
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How it begins
…misadventure; the deceased, driving the Cauldshaw road at night, failed to hold the bend above the water and was drowned.
It had been on the bottom of Hartmere for eleven years, and the water company wanted it up in nine days — before the reservoir was allowed to fill again, and the thing they were paying her to reach went back out of reach for good. Nine days was not long. It was, when Kath Verran stood on the shore and looked at what the drawdown had left her, exactly as long as it needed to be, which was another way of saying they had priced her time to the hour and meant to have all of it.
Is this your kind of book?
The Unraised is self-contained gothic suspense — one book, one story, no series commitment. It is written for readers who want the patient kind of crime and suspense: plotted, unhurried, and more interested in what people conceal than in how loudly it ends.
It is a standalone novel. There is no series to catch up on and no cliffhanger waiting at the end — one book, one complete story.
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