Those Who Came Before book - Flame Tree Publishing

“Moncrieff’s novel reads quickly, which is not a bad thing. It paints a vivid picture of a lost tribe and skillfully intertwines its plots. Incorporating social issues into the story. Readers won’t want to reject it.” - Booklist

People are dying at Strong Lake, and the worst is yet to come.

An idyllic weekend camping trip is interrupted when Reese Wallace’s friends are brutally murdered. As the sole survivor, Reese is the main suspect, and his story makes little sense. An incorporeal voice warning him not to leave the campsite the previous night? A strange, blackened tree that electrocuted him while chopping it for firewood?

Detective Greyeyes doesn’t have this until he hears the voice himself and finds an arrowhead at the crime scene that he can’t get rid of. Disturbing visions of a doomed Native American tribe, which once called the campsite home, and rumors of cursed land and a mythical beast haunt the strangest murder case he’s ever been involved in.

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