Nothing Stays Buried

Fear grips her as she passes under the last streetlight on the remote highway. Seeing the familiar truck, she thinks she’s safe. But her scream is silenced by a gloved hand before her world goes black…

When Sheriff Jenna Alton and Deputy David Kane investigate a cold case on a remote ranch in Black Rock Falls, what they uncover chills them to the bone. In a shallow grave lies the lifeless body of farm worker Maria Reyes. Jenna’s heart breaks as she sweeps aside the woman’s long dark hair to find purple bruising all over her face.

Interviewing workers at the ranch, Jenna senses hostility and feels eyes watching her. Every instinct screams that something very sinister is happening here and when news breaks that another young woman is missing, her pulse races once again. Jenna knows she’s running out of time to find the girl before she too ends up in a woodland grave.

Jenna and her team work night and day, ignoring the growing threat from the farm workers around them, and soon discover a link between the ranch and an unsolved case where two people were burned alive in a remote cabin. Could a twisted killer have been using this place as a hunting ground for over a decade?

When a call comes in about suspicious activity at an off-the-grid hut in the nearby forest, Jenna knows this is the breakthrough they need. Scrambling her team, she prays that she can catch this ruthless killer before he takes another innocent life. But what waits for her beneath the trees is more terrifying than anything she imagined. Can she find the missing girl and save herself from becoming the monster’s next victim?

D.K. HOOD is THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY, and #1 AMAZON international multimillion-copy best-selling author of crime and psychological thrillers. She writes the Kane and Alton and Beth Katz series, The Liar I Married, His Next Wife, Tell Me Your Lies, and more upcoming psychological standalone thrillers and is published by Bookouture (Hachette UK)

KANE AND ALTON:

D.K.'s spine-chilling, fast-paced serial killer thrillers revolve around Sheriff Jenna Alton and her ex-special forces deputy, Dave Kane. As the main characters fight crime, their secret pasts are never far away. Set in and around the fictional backwoods town of Black Rock Falls, Montana, known locally as Serial Killer Central, D.K.'s imagery takes the reader into the scenes with her. Given the title "Queen of Suspense" by her reviewers, D.K.'s writing style offers her readers a movie-style, sizzling-fast thrill ride.

SPECIAL AGENT BETH KATZ-

Beth is a serial killer working for the FBI. By day she is a dedicated agent, and by night she becomes the notorious Tarot Killer and hunts down vicious serial killers who have slipped through the net of justice. With her handsome mountain man partner,

Agent Dax Styles, and they fight crime by walking a very thin line of the law.

THE LIAR I MARRIED—A totally addictive psychological thriller with a mind-blowing twist

HIS NEXT WIFE—A chilling, twisty, psychological thriller.

TELL ME YOUR LIES—This story will blow your mind.

Her Broken Wings was voted the #1 Best Thriller of All Time by The Book Authority.

Where Angels Fear was voted Best Detective Book Of All Time by The Book Authority.

Her Broken Wings—Best Audiobook of All Time by The Book Authority.

Be Mine Forever—Finalist Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards 2022

Translations are available in French, German, and Russian, with more languages coming soon.

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