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Lost Man's Lane

by Scott Carson

A missing woman and an impossible police encounter unsettle a small town

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A missing woman and an impossible police encounter unsettle a small town

Marshall Miller’s account of seeing a missing woman in a police car puts him at the center of an investigation—and raises questions when the officer he names, Maddox, does not appear to exist. After Marshall’s credibility collapses, the story turns toward the town’s buried history and the consequences of trying to uncover it. The setup brings together a teenage witness, a disappearance, and secrets beneath the surface of an apparently peaceful community, framing the mystery within a horror thriller. The description also foregrounds Marshall’s position as a teenager and the son of a single mother as he faces police scrutiny and media attention.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers who enjoy horror fiction rooted in a small-town mystery.
  • For readers interested in missing-person investigations and unreliable or disputed testimony.
  • For readers seeking a story centered on a teenager confronting his community’s hidden history.

Themes

Small-town secretsMissing personsWitness credibilityTeenage perspectivePublic scrutiny

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Book overview

A teenager explores the darkness hidden within his hometown in this spellbinding thriller that will "make you a Scott Carson fan for life" (Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author). Marshall Miller would've remembered her face even if he hadn't seen it on a MISSING poster. When a young woman goes missing in his small town, the investigation hinges on Marshall's haunted sighting of her, crying in the back seat of a police car driven by a cop named Maddox. There's only one problem: no local cop named Maddox exists. But the speeding ticket he handed to Marshall certainly does. Dealing with police and media is heady stuff for a teenager, the son of a single mother, but Marshall is sure he can handle it, until the shocking day when his reliability as a witness implodes. Now scorned and shamed, he finds unlikely allies as he confronts the ancient secrets behind his small town's peaceful fa
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