Courtroom Truths
Mystery & Suspense · inspired by real events

What the River Cannot Tell

Decades after finding ransom money, an archive worker risks a rescue grant rather than let a documentary turn her childhood into proof of a lie.

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Genre
Mystery & Suspense
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
15
Fiction status
inspired by real events
Editorial responsibility
My Life Story Editorial

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Courtroom Truths

Chapters

  1. 01The Girl in the Trailer
  2. 02Not the Same as Solved
  3. 03The Price of Being Heard
  4. 04Four Parachutes
  5. 05Thirty-Six Seats
  6. 06The Empty Rear Cabin
  7. 07The Wrong Carton
  8. 08What I Actually Said
  9. 09An Easier Ending
  10. 10The Grant Envelope
  11. 11Permission to Remember
  12. 12Known, Recalled, Unknown
  13. 13The Whole Question
  14. 14No Hero in the Cabin
  15. 15A Smaller Open Door

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