{"product_id":"the-dark-below-9781662521171","title":"The Dark Below","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNot all secrets stay buried. Not all deaths are what they seem.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Chase Loudermilk, a troubled veteran, is found dead, everyone assumes it's suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone except his criminology professor, Teddy Drummond. A former cop haunted by painful memories, Teddy suspects Chase has been murdered, and that the answers lie hidden in his shadowy past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn reluctantly into the case, Teddy teams up with Detective Raina Bragg--a woman with every reason to hate her. As the two dig into the town's buried secrets, what they uncover is more than a motive. It's a chain reaction of choices, each darker than the last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen another body turns up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, in a place where everyone's lives are tangled and few are truly innocent, Teddy and Raina find themselves in a race against time to stop a killer and expose the truth: that some consequences take years to surface--and the most dangerous secrets are the ones nobody sees coming...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRankin, Sherry:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eSherry Rankin grew up in New Jersey and has taught creative writing and literature in West Texas since 1997. After winning the Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger award and being shortlisted for the Daniel Goldsmith First Novel Prize in 2017 (for an as-yet-unpublished novel), she went on to be shortlisted in the Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSherry has a daughter in New Mexico and enjoys gardening and walking her dogs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dark Below\u003c\/i\u003e is her second novel; her first, \u003ci\u003eThe Killing Plains\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas \u0026 Mercer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52000299876626,"sku":"9781662521171","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a0becb95-0209-4a14-8a7d-6e186d543c8c.jpg?v=1770193782","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-dark-below-9781662521171","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}