The Vein

By: Steph Nelson

Narrated by: Susan Marlowe

An abandoned mine. A mummified corpse. A simmering evil.

When a shriveled body turns up in an old silver mine, failed detective Syl Dixon gets pulled into the investigation. But the strange case is even more sinister than she imagined. And the dying town of Pate, Idaho is full of secrets that don't want to be uncovered. People go missing all the time. Strange howls echo from the woods. Eerie portraits hang like shrines outside homes. But nobody-including the local sheriff-seems to care. The deeper Syl digs, the more she realizes she's facing a malicious darkness that has plagued Pate for over a century. Can Syl rid the town of this evil before it swallows everything in its path, including her?

©2023 Steph Nelson (P)2025 Dark Matter INK

Slow burn.

This book took some time to build as it should with any good mystery. But by they end I was like, "What! Noooo!" Great book.

So good!

I was pleasantly surprised! I really her books. so different and u predictable. I can't wait to read her next book.

The mine

This story is gripping , It goes from past to present an investigation of a murdered individual. investigation for a murdered individual. Other murders and disappearances are all are connected to the silver mineThere have been other murders and disappearances, plus reappearances and all connected to a silver mining mountain and its past. Supernatural forces are behind this.
Check trigger warnings.
Susan Marlowe narration is good.