When beloved school counselor Angela Price is found murdered in her office, the small town of Hallow Creek reels in disbelief. To the community, she was the model of compassion. To the detectives called to the scene, she's the start of something darker.Detective Evan Rourke, haunted by the disappearance of his son, and Detective Maya Ellis, a rising investigator with her own unraveling marriage, are tasked with finding her killer. But as they dig deeper, they uncover a web of corruption that stretches through the school, the police department, and the quiet streets that once felt safe.A missing student. A staged suicide. Evidence that erases itself.Each clue leads Rourke and Ellis closer to a truth someone has already killed to protect-and to a reckoning that will test how far they're willing to go for justice.In The Hallow Creek Murders, J.L. Stiles delivers a haunting small-town mystery where guilt has a voice, the dead don't rest easily, and every solved case leaves a stain that never fades.