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Nobody Reported the Tide

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Marsh asked what 'number seven' meant. Six investigators had come before him, the woman said, each one drowned within three days of arriving. 'The claim isn't theirs,' she said. 'It's filed for them, by whoever wants them gone.' The victims had been investigators, just like Marsh.

Marsh decided to drive out of town before three days could pass. But every road out curved straight back to Pelican Road. By dusk he stopped fighting it and understood: nobody who came to Saltcreek for these files ever left.

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