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After the Water Recedes: A Cook Investigations Novel
Paperback
Series: A Cook Investigations Novel, Book 15
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 22 2025
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.31
Height: 1.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When a flash flood exposes irregularities at a coastal care facility, private investigator Ellie Cook notices what everyone else misses: the paperwork doesn't match the people.
As residents are evacuated, records vanish, transfers multiply, and one man is quietly erased by the system meant to protect him. What begins as a missing-persons inquiry spirals into a layered investigation of institutional control, medical authority, and the weaponization of delay.
Set along the storm-battered Oregon coast, After the Water Recedes is a gripping coastal noir mystery about the crimes that don't look like crimes-where consent is manufactured, accountability is deferred, and silence does the real damage.
Ellie Cook doesn't chase criminals. She dismantles systems.
Perfect for fans of dark mysteries, morally complex thrillers, and investigative noir where the danger isn't a gun-it's a form you didn't know you signed.
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