The West Door of Hollow Creek

In 1994, Hollow Creek is the kind of Tennessee town where everyone knows your truck-and who was driving it last night. When people begin vanishing on Thursdays, veteran detective Frank Miller notices a pattern no one else sees: a tight corridor of clocks-11:43, 11:44, 12:01-12:03, 12:07-linking the west door of City Hall, a quiet payphone on Maple, and a nine-mile loop to a river turnout on County Road 12. As pressure builds, a beloved mayor and his meticulous time-keeper become the axis of a small town's secrets. A bartender disappears. A city sedan glides through the dark with a taped taillight. Frank sets a careful trap with nothing but keys, codes, trays, and timing-and the town holds its breath. Told in crisp, cinematic scenes, The West Door of Hollow Creek is a lean, human police procedural about how ordinary routines hide extraordinary harm-and how a community learns to keep watch again. Perfect for readers who enjoy: small-town mysteries, timeline-driven procedurals, character-first crime fiction, and 1990s nostalgia without tech doing the work.