The Deepest of Secrets
A Rockton Novel
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4.4 • 39 Ratings
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Publisher Description
#1 New York Times bestseller Kelley Armstrong returns to the captivating town of Rockton in The Deepest of Secrets, the next installment in one of the most imaginative crime series on shelves today.
"This is a series that covers all the bases.” —St. Louis Post Dispatch
It’s not always easy to live in the hidden town of Rockton, something Detective Casey Duncan knows firsthand. Tucked away in the Yukon wilderness, the community survives—and thrives—because the residents' many secrets stay just that—secret.
But what happens when these secrets start to come out? Overnight, no one is safe. It’s not a question of if your secret will come out—but when.
Casey and her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, need to find the culprit while protecting those who have been thrust into the spotlight. For a place built on privacy and new beginnings, Rockton isn’t handling these revelations very well. People are turning on one another, and when one of the loudest complainers turns up barely alive, it's clear that their trickster is actually a murderer.
The threat of exposure is reaching its breaking point, and no one knows what’s going to happen next.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In bestseller Armstrong's explosive follow-up to 2021's A Stranger in Town—her seventh novel set in Rockton, an off-grid Canadian Yukon refuge for people looking to disappear—Det. Casey Duncan and Sheriff Eric Dalton, her common-law husband, see their evening disrupted when someone posts a sign accusing Deputy Will Anders of committing homicide before coming to Rockton. Though it's true Anders shot his army unit's commanding officer while in a fugue state, Rockton runs on secrecy: nobody knows anyone's real identity or personal history, and revealing such information is forbidden. After a group demands Anders's exile and implies everyone who disagrees is hiding something equally heinous that warrants exposure, Casey and Dalton realize they must work quickly to find and punish the culprit before they lose control—particularly since the council that remotely governs Rockton wants an excuse to shutter it. Avalanching complications ensue. Armstrong shrewdly weaponizes her series' conceit against her characters, pairing demagoguery with paranoia to amplify tension and maximize stakes. The mystery feels manufactured, but the tale still thrills. Rockton fans will be well gratified.
