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Deep Recovery

(2026)
(The first book in the Black Water Salvage series)
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Eleven vehicles went down with the ferry. Only ten are on the manifest.

Jack Tolliver dives the jobs that end in a body bag. Insurance recoveries, drowned snowmobiles, men who went through the ice and stayed there. He is good at it because he is careful, and he is careful because the lake off Death's Door has been taking careless men for a hundred and fifty years.

The wreck of a car ferry in a hundred and ninety feet of black water should have been a survey and a signature. Then Jack counts the vehicles on the car deck and comes up one short — a van nobody declared, chained to the deck at the stern, sealed cases stacked inside it, and a driver still belted into his seat thirty years after the water took him.

Somebody has been waiting three decades for that van to come up in daylight, with no crime scene and no chain of custody. They have a federal abandonment ruling four days out and a boat on the site with divers cycling around the clock. And now they know Jack Tolliver has been down there.

He has one partner, four hundred feet of umbilical, and a gale coming up the lake.

The first Black Water Salvage thriller.


Genre: Thriller

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