The Hollow Bell
Twenty years after Marnie Renner vanished, her remains surface beneath the ice—and her sister comes home to find out who put her there.
A frozen body brings an old disappearance back to Millbrook Falls.
The Hollow Bell is an atmospheric small-town mystery built around a twenty-year-old disappearance that never stopped shaping Millbrook Falls. Journalist Claire Renner returns carrying questions about her missing sister, while Sheriff Del Hutchins is drawn into a new discovery that points back toward the old case. A body beneath the ice, buried records, drownings, and a local legend begin to overlap in ways the town would rather leave alone.
For readers who like cold-case mystery books, missing-person investigations, winter atmosphere, journalists and sheriffs following old evidence, and supernatural elements that deepen rather than replace the mystery, The Hollow Bell is the clearest entry point into the Millbrook Falls world.
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