First published 2024
Anna and Jennie cannot leave their family bungalow beside the Chicago River. The old house fills with unexplained sounds and voices that pierce through its walls. Bodies drift past Anna's window with disturbing frequency, part of a pattern of drownings that plague their neighborhood. Anna creates a podcast about Chicago's dark past to combat her isolation. When a devoted male listener begins pursuing her, Anna glimpses life beyond the confines of her home. Jennie watches her sister's growing connection with mounting alarm. The river claims more victims as missing persons reports multiply. Two detectives arrive at their door seeking connections between the waterway deaths and whatever dwells along its banks. The sisters remain unaware of the true horror that governs their existence until the buried secrets of their lives begin emerging from the depths.
Genres: mystery, contemporary, thriller, gothic
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: Chicago, Chicago River
Period: contemporary
289 pages · Paperback · Thomas & Mercer
Content warnings: death, mental-illness