The Stolinger Case

<p><strong>What happens when the truth surfaces-and drowns everything it touches?</strong></p><p>When disgraced journalist <strong>Clara Bensen</strong> returns to Winther Ridge to care for her ailing mother the sleepy lakeside town is the last place she expects to find another headline. But when the local principal <strong>Grace Stolinger</strong> is found dead in a wedding dress floating in the lake Clara is pulled into a chilling mystery that dredges up more than a body-it exhumes secrets buried for decades.</p><p>As Clara peels back layers of small-town loyalty faded friendships and official lies she begins to unravel the cold-case drowning of <strong>Eddie Hadley</strong> Grace's younger brother. What begins as a search for justice soon becomes a fight for survival as powerful men move to silence the past-and anyone who threatens to expose them.</p><p>With the help of a haunted police chief a defiant student witness and her own fractured memories Clara must face what happened twenty-five years ago even if it means burning Winther Ridge to the ground.</p><p><em><strong>The Stolinger Case</strong></em> is a razor-sharp psychological suspense novel about redemption moral courage and the cost of truth in a community built on lies.</p>