The House On Windsor Street by DP Smith (Paperback)

Some questions don't stay buried. And neither does the truth.
Fourteen years ago, Ryan Mercer vanished without a trace from the small town of Black Hollow. No note. No body. No answers. His sister Evelyn built a life around not looking back until an unsigned photograph arrived on her doorstep, and the figure standing in the upstairs window of her childhood home on Windsor Street looked impossibly, undeniably familiar.
Now Evelyn is back in Black Hollow. And the town she left behind is not what it seemed.
The House on Windsor Street the first installment in the Black Hollow Mystery series is a richly atmospheric small-town thriller that unspools layer by layer, as Evelyn discovers that her brother's disappearance was never a simple missing-persons case. Behind the quiet storefronts and familiar faces of Black Hollow lies a web of land fraud, political corruption, covered-up contamination, and a deadly secret that powerful people have spent decades burying.
A hidden room behind a bookshelf. A cassette tape with a message cut off at its most critical moment. A trusted librarian with a sealed envelope that's been waiting fourteen years. A sheriff's deputy who knew more than he ever admitted. And at the center of it all a name no one dares to say out loud.
Ryan didn't run. He was hiding. And he left a trail only Evelyn would know how to follow.
Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Kristin Hannah, and Liane Moriarty, The House on Windsor Street is a gripping debut mystery full of small-town secrets, family loyalty, and the quiet devastation of truths left too long unspoken.
Welcome to Black Hollow. Everyone here knows something. And no one is telling the whole truth.