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The Girl in the Mine

(2025)
(The first book in the Raven Creek Files series)
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THE GIRL IN THE MINE

A Raven Creek Thriller – Book One

by Daniel Parton

A missing girl. A haunted mine.

And a sheriff who knows the past was never buried—it was waiting.

Seventeen-year-old Abby Stratton vanishes on her walk home from school, leaving behind only a cracked phone… and a trail that leads straight into the mouth of Raven Creek’s abandoned copper mine.

Sheriff Cole Taggart has seen this before.

Fifteen years ago, another girl disappeared near that same shaft—Carrie Dorsey. Her body was never found. Her case destroyed Cole’s FBI career. And now, Abby''s obsession with that cold case may have led her to the same fate.

As Cole digs deeper, he uncovers something darker than he imagined: a town desperate to hide its sins, a family name that commands silence, and a killer who’s been hiding in plain sight.

Because Raven Creek has rules.

Girls don’t go missing.

They vanish.

And the mine always takes what it’s owed.

Perfect for fans of James Patterson, Karin Slaughter, and C.J. Box, The Girl in the Mine is a lightning-paced thriller full of small-town secrets, buried crimes, and relentless suspense from first page to last.


Genre: Mystery

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