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Hole in the Woods

By: Jennifer Graeser Dornbush
Narrated by: Marni Penning, Lauren Ezzo, Elise Randall, Byron Wagner, Timothy Howard Jackson
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July 1989, in a sleepy Michigan town, high school grad Nina Laramie heads out with her friends and is never seen alive again. Months later, her skeleton is found near a remote party spot in the forest.

The ME determines Nina has been brutally raped and bludgeoned to death. Fear and anger ripple through this tight-knit community when the case goes cold.

Thirty years later, Riley St. James, a Detroit PD assigned to Nina’s case, is determined to get her first big cold case win despite having a similar past to the victim. Relying on her investigative prowess and gut instinct, Riley tracks down a witness who saw Nina Laramie’s murder. But as the truth comes to light, Riley must face the killers who want their secret to stay in the Hole in the Woods.

Hole in the Woods is based on the 1989 true-life murder case of Shannon Siders of Newaygo County, Michigan. After the case went dormant, a Michigan cold case team formed in 2011 and uncovered new evidence that enabled them to arrest, try, and convict the killers, who were sent to prison for Shannon’s murder in 2015.

©2020 Jennifer Graeser Dornbush (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Michigan Detective Murder Cold Case Crime Thriller Suspense
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This book gives insights of how cold cases are solved including public involvement. I like to go back to verify specific parts if I loose focus.

Very impressive

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Loved this audible version, the story (now that I know it’s a true crime) was engrossing and eerie at the same time. Hearing the story from Nina’s perspective (the girl who died) was something I haven’t read done before and it was really interesting, and a little sad

Another great book

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apart from the sadness of what humans do to each other , nothing to dislike about how this was presented.

gripping story based on real life event.

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The inclusion of the voice of the deceased was very odd and the whole story had peculiar fundamentalist religious themes I found very off putting

A real story told unrealistically

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