Rain Date - A Cold Case Mystery
Ethan Marlowe
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
Every September, the river town of Cinder Ford launches a raft of candles at dusk, and when a storm cancels the parade, the whole thing happens again the following Saturday. That is what a rain date is. In 1999, on the rain date, seventeen-year-old Tess Lindqvist walked down to the water with the town watching, and never came home.
Twenty-five years later, a flood fills the county basement and a misfiled box floats to the surface. Nell Hartigan, a records clerk who has spent twelve years putting other people's lives in order, was thirteen when Tess disappeared. She knows the name on the label. She knows the handwriting on the sealed envelope inside. And she knows that nobody leaves a box this long by accident.
With a retired deputy who wants no part of it, a supervisor who wants every damaged file shredded by Monday, and a committee chair with a parade to protect, Nell starts asking quiet questions. The answers wait in a hardware store, a shop classroom, a care home, and a sister who has always changed the subject.
Told in alternating chapters, Nell's own account of the weeks after the flood and the last seven days of Tess's life, Rain Date lets you piece together one long September evening from both ends. There are no monsters here, only small lies, a borrowed car, an old debt, and a promise kept far too long.
Warm, humane and quietly gripping, with a town full of believable people, a mystery that plays fair, and an ending worth the wait.
A dual-timeline cold case mystery with a hopeful heart. Clean, with no graphic violence.
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