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Twenty-three years a diver for the Ashford Sheriff's Department, Tom Weaver has learned to read a lake like a lie, quiet on the surface, heavy underneath. When a missing waitress is found buckled into her pickup at the bottom of Ashford Lake, the report writes itself, probable suicide, clean and simple. Only nothing about the scene is simple, not the headlights still burning, not the open hands, not the way the water feels like it's holding its breath. Leah Bennett, a stubborn true-crime podcaster, arrives asking questions the town would rather forget, why the files are sealed, why a ring logged into evidence never made it to the inventory, why the dive footage skips a minute that matters. As storms roll in over the bridge and rumors thicken on shore, Tom goes back under. He comes up with more than silt, a silver ring engraved S.D., and the certainty that someone else has been working the bottom after him. The sheriff's boots are wet, and the town is done pretending it doesn't notice. When a second body turns the lake into a crime scene, Tom records the one truth he can still carry, water remembers, then leaves a message meant to drag the truth to light, tell Leah Bennett to keep looking. In Ashford, nothing stays buried forever, not badges, not rings, not the people who put them there. A taut, small-town noir about guilt, rot, and the evidence we try to drown, The Weight of Water is for readers of Long Bright River, The Dry, and Mindhunter, a slow-burn investigation where the proof sits at the bottom and the surface lies back.

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