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In Moose Creek, no one has to threaten you. The town does that for them. A missed payment. A favor you owe. A word left unsaid at the wrong moment. That's how Mayor Ruth has held this valley for thirty years. Not with fists, but with debts nobody dares call in. Then a man named Ethan turns up dead on the ridge, and everyone agrees a little too quickly that it was an accident. Ranger Tom Avery keeps asking questions anyway. Every question costs him something. A friend who stops returning calls. A door that used to be open. The slow understanding that the people telling him to let it go are the ones with the most to lose. The truth is up there on the mountain. So is the reason nobody's gone looking. Murder on Ridge Trail, Book 1 of the Timberline Ranger series. A slow-burn mystery about what silence really costs. https://www.eppublishers.com/murder-on-ridge-trail #SmallTownMystery #SlowBurnMystery #MountainThriller