Everyone In Town Knew

When archivist Linda Venn arrives in the small town of Riverbend to catalogue its historical records, she expects old documents and forgotten stories. Instead, she finds historian Celeste Arden dead inside the town's archive.The police call it an accident. Linda isn't convinced.A cryptic message in Celeste's ledger—EVERYONE IN TOWN KNEW—leads Linda into a mystery that reaches back to a devastating flood in 1998. An engineering report suggests the flood barrier was deliberately opened. Property records reveal that valuable riverfront land was purchased before the disaster. And an old photograph appears to prove that a man officially declared missing that night was still alive the following morning.As Linda digs deeper, she discovers a web of altered records, buried evidence, frightened witnesses, and people who have spent nearly three decades protecting the same secret.But Celeste was getting close to the truth.And someone was willing to kill again to keep it buried.With the town closing ranks around her, Linda must uncover what really happened in 1998, determine who killed Celeste, and expose the chain of lies that allowed an entire community to live with the truth for twenty-eight years.Because in Riverbend, everyone knew something.The real mystery is why nobody spoke.