The Girl in the River

The Girl in the River A Mick & Mack Mystery

She vanished without a sound.
 She was found where the water runs quiet.

Years before Lily Moore was murdered, another girl was taken—Emily Travers, age eight, gone without a trace from the streets of Cabbagetown. Her body turned up weeks later in the icy Rouge River, scarf knotted tight, shoes missing, innocence stolen.

The case was forgotten. Until now.

When a tip from private eye Johnny Chandler pulls Detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely into the past, they uncover more than a cold file—they discover a chilling pattern. Strangled girls. Remote dumping grounds. No robbery. No motive. Just silence… and scarves.

As the detectives retrace Emily’s final steps, old witnesses come forward, memories sharpen, and a name begins to form in the fog. But with each clue, a darker truth emerges: the killer didn’t return.

He never left.

Now, with help from a world-weary reporter and a cryptic matchbook from Queen Street, Mick and Mack must navigate the shadows between city and countryside, innocence and evil, memory and menace—before the killer chooses another name from the list.

Because some things don’t stay buried.
 And the river still whispers.

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