Buried Deep

Buried Deep is a thriller novella by Margot Hunt. After two decades of a near-perfect marriage, Maggie and James Cabot are settling into life as empty-nesters in their quiet Florida suburb when two detectives arrive with news that upends everything: the remains of Hannah Nilsson, missing for twenty-five years, have been found half a mile from the campsite where she was last seen, buried six feet deep. Hannah disappeared on a camping trip years before James and Maggie ever met, and everyone had assumed she'd wandered off drunk and drowned. The location and depth of her burial make clear she was murdered.

As police reopen the case with James as the most obvious suspect, his and Maggie's ordinary life is engulfed by scrutiny and social-media notoriety. Maggie sets out to clear her husband's name, tracking down the old camping-trip friends who were there the night Hannah vanished, and turning up secrets several of them would rather stay buried.