No One Was Looking: A Hollis Mercer Novel

Hollis Mercer doesn't go looking for trouble. He has a rule about that.He comes to Muscle Shoals, Alabama for a freelance marketing job - a small label, a handful of musicians, nothing that should keep him more than a few weeks. He's not a detective. He's not anyone official. He's just a man with a camera, a dog, and a habit of noticing things other people have trained themselves not to see.Then his camera catches something it shouldn't have.A photograph that doesn't match the story the town has already agreed on. A child who's supposed to be somewhere she isn't. A silence that's just a little too well-kept to be an accident.Hollis tries not to get involved. He's good at that, usually. But once he sees who's being buried underneath a family's carefully managed version of events, walking away stops being an option - even as the people with the most to lose start making it very clear that he should.No One Was Looking is a slow-burn Southern mystery about the lies families tell to protect themselves, and the quiet, underestimated outsider who won't stop pulling the thread - for readers of Tracker and Reacher who like their heroes understated and their small towns hiding something.Book One of the Hollis Mercer series.