The Tear Collector
- ISBN-10
- 1949398285
- ISBN-13
- 9781949398281
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 394
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-12-02
- Publisher
- RhetAskew Publishing
- Author
- Shawn Burgess
Description
The misdeeds of our ancestors can be like shadows, lurking and waiting to reveal the sins of the past. For the residents of Harper Pass, that time is now. After an autistic classmate goes missing in the small Appalachian community, young Brooks Raker and his friends stumble into the middle of the police investigation. As the dark secrets of the town's past start to unravel, the list of unusual suspects climbs, and people continue to disappear. When Brooks and his friends dig deeper into the unexpected events, they begin to suspect a sinister force is at work in Harper Pass. Can they work together to survive? Detective Holt is thrust into a leadership role in the wake of Chief Barton's absence, and having lost his first child to miscarriage, he is left feeling as if his entire world has been shattered. On top of all this, he must confront the mysteries surrounding Harper Pass, when the typically quiet town suddenly devolves into chaos. Without any real answers, and with Kasey Norton, an ambitious local reporter, closing in on him, Detective Holt struggles to maintain his facade of control. The string of disappearances and suspicious deaths lead him to the doorstep of the mysterious and reclusive Professor Wadlow. When the detective realizes what he is truly up against, a tectonic shift in his thinking--the fault lines of which can never be mended--leave him feeling more lost than ever. Can he save the citizens of Harper Pass, or has their fate already been determined?
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