Drowned Bell

When drought exposes the ruins of a village deliberately drowned beneath Greyhaven's reservoir, the town prepares to recover the bell of St. Orison's Church.But the bell does not rise alone.Chained beneath it is the body of historian Cora Wren, murdered after claiming she had uncovered the truth about the families forced from Bellweather nearly fifty years earlier.Detective Inspector Rowan Vale is drawn into a case shaped by old grievances, missing records, illegal land transfers, and a community that has spent decades deciding which version of its past deserves to survive. As the investigation closes in on Greyhaven's most powerful institutions, Rowan discovers that his own family may be connected to the night Bellweather disappeared beneath the water.Someone has turned the village's most sacred symbol into a murder scene.And buried beneath the mud is evidence that Bellweather was not flooded simply to create a reservoir.It was flooded to make the truth disappear.