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Below The Falls: A Nine-Mile Murder Mystery
The river was up the night Ellis Harrow died, and the dam was talking.
Retired dam tender Ellis Harrow is found dead below Nine Mile Dam on a stormy October night, and at first it looks like a fall — until Detective June Hartley, home on leave, notices his coat is buttoned wrong and dry inside. Someone dressed a dead man.
June's quiet homecoming becomes a hunt through the village the dam ten historic cottages, a forged land record, a hidden turbine ledger, and a secret someone has kept since 1984. From Sontag Park to the Little Spokane, from the Bowl and Pitcher to a confession on the overlook, June follows numbers only a tender would know — and a lie only a friend would tell.
Set in the real community of Nine Mile Falls, Washington, where the 1908 dam still powers the valley, Below the Falls is a murder-mystery novella about a small town, a long memory, and a river that gives back exactly what is true.
Retired dam tender Ellis Harrow is found dead below Nine Mile Dam on a stormy October night, and at first it looks like a fall — until Detective June Hartley, home on leave, notices his coat is buttoned wrong and dry inside. Someone dressed a dead man.
June's quiet homecoming becomes a hunt through the village the dam ten historic cottages, a forged land record, a hidden turbine ledger, and a secret someone has kept since 1984. From Sontag Park to the Little Spokane, from the Bowl and Pitcher to a confession on the overlook, June follows numbers only a tender would know — and a lie only a friend would tell.
Set in the real community of Nine Mile Falls, Washington, where the 1908 dam still powers the valley, Below the Falls is a murder-mystery novella about a small town, a long memory, and a river that gives back exactly what is true.
39 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 28, 2026
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