Twenty years ago, Naomi's older sister vanished from their small Maine town, and everyone quietly agreed to stop looking. Now Naomi is the detective assigned to investigate a stranger's death in the very same reservoir — a true-crime podcaster who'd spent three years quietly reopening the one case this town swore was finally closed. The harder she looks, the more the two cases start to look like one. The clues lead somewhere no one wants them to go. A doctor beloved by the whole county. A friendship Naomi has trusted for twenty years without once thinking to question it. A secret so carefully guarded that even the people closest to her may not know how deep it actually runs. She built her whole career on believing she'd never look away from an uncomfortable truth the way this town once did to her own family. She's about to find out exactly how wrong that belief was. As the case narrows, Naomi has to reckon with an impossible truth — that solving her sister's murder might cost her everything else she has left. Nothing stays buried forever. A slow-burn psychological thriller with a genuinely surprising twist Small-town Maine setting, twenty years of buried secrets, and a detective who has to investigate the people she loves most A cold case and a fresh murder that turn out to be the same story DROWNED TWICE is a gripping psychological thriller about grief, loyalty, and the lies a town tells itself to survive — and about how well any of us really know the people who've never given us a reason to doubt them. For readers who love small-town secrets, decades-old cold cases, and mysteries where the person you trust most turns out to be the one you should have questioned first. J. G. Soren is a pseudonym. The author has chosen to remain otherwise unknown.
