Abhijit Nath

Pinefall sits where the Pacific Northwest swallows the light — a small town wrapped in mountains, fog, and rain that never seems to stop. The kind of place where the sun is a rumor and everyone knows everyone's business, except the one thing that matters. Two weeks ago, seventeen-year-old Sofia Carter disappeared. The police filed it as a runaway and moved on. Her family isn't so sure. Private investigator Adam Lane doesn't do missing persons — not anymore. But when bloody clothes turn up near a quiet lake on the edge of town, and a client with deep pockets comes calling, he's dragged back into a case that everyone else has already given up on. The deeper Adam digs, the less it looks like a runaway, and the more it looks like everyone in Sofia Carter's life is lying to him — her father who won't speak her name, her best friend who's erased every trace of her, a boyfriend nobody can find. In a town this small, secrets don't stay buried for long.

Dread