Across the Water (The Call - A Thriller Series Book 5)
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HE SAW A MAN EXECUTED ACROSS THE WATER. THE BLOOD WAS REAL. THE GUNSHOT WAS REAL. BUT THE MURDER WASN’T.
Danny Weygandt expected nothing more dangerous than a quiet morning fishing the vast waters of Dworshak Reservoir.
Then he raises his binoculars.
Across the water, two men force another man to his knees on a remote shoreline. A gun comes up. A shot cracks across the reservoir. The man falls.
Danny calls 911.
Before he can fully explain what he has witnessed, the killers launch a boat.
And come after him.
Gunfire follows Danny across the water. Bullets strike his boat. His engine begins to fail. With nowhere else to go, he abandons the damaged vessel, reaches an isolated shoreline, and disappears into the timber as his connection to the dispatcher dies.
By the time law enforcement reaches the place Danny described, they find blood.
But no body.
Sheriff Mack Mackenzie and his deputies have an eyewitness who is certain of what he saw, physical evidence proving that violence occurred, and no murder victim. Then another troubling fact emerges.
Danny was never supposed to be fishing there that morning.
His brother canceled their planned trip. Danny nearly stayed home himself. Only a last-minute fishing report from a casual acquaintance persuaded him to launch his boat and travel to that particular stretch of reservoir.
Someone wanted Danny there.
As investigators begin pulling apart the circumstances that placed him on the water, another man disappears. This time, a body is found.
The deeper the investigation reaches, the less the case resembles a simple murder. Old equipment records, stolen machinery, manipulated financial documents, a hidden paper ledger, unexplained money, and an eleven-year-old service record begin connecting people who have spent years believing their secrets were safely buried.
Meanwhile, somewhere beyond the reach of the search, the man Danny watched fall is still alive.
And the people who arranged his death are beginning to turn on one another.
Why You’ll Love This Book
• A terrifying opening 911 call that launches the danger immediately
• A remote-reservoir pursuit where geography controls who can reach whom
• A missing-body mystery built around an eyewitness who truly saw what he says he saw
• Small-town law enforcement, EMS, search and rescue, and investigative work grounded in realistic limitations
• Layered criminal deception involving stolen heavy equipment, financial fraud, betrayal, and murder
• A psychological question that keeps changing as the evidence grows: what happens when your eyes tell the truth, but someone has deliberately manipulated what that truth means?
Inside the Investigation
• An ordinary fisherman deliberately placed in extraordinary danger
• A staged execution that becomes far more dangerous than its conspirators intended
• A second death that transforms the entire investigation
• Evidence hidden in old paperwork rather than technological miracles
• A final return to Dworshak where every surviving conspirator must face what the deception has become
Set against the immense water, steep forested shoreline, limited road access, and isolated reaches of North Central Idaho’s Dworshak Reservoir, ACROSS THE WATER is a small-town crime and psychological thriller about perception, manipulation, guilt, and the terrible distance between seeing something happen and understanding why.
Danny Weygandt knows what he saw. The real question is why someone needed him to see it.