Deeper Than the Dead

Its place in Oak Knoll

Deeper Than the Dead is book 1 in the Oak Knoll series. It is followed by Secrets to the Grave. See the full Oak Knoll reading order.

Set in the small California town of Oak Knoll in 1985, this trilogy follows sheriff's detective Anne Leone (later Navarre) and a rotating cast of local investigators across a series of interconnected crimes against children and teenagers. Deeper Than the Dead (2009) opens with the discovery of a young woman's body by four schoolchildren, kicking off an investigation into a serial predator preying on the town; Secrets to the Grave (2010) and Down the Darkest Road (2011) continue directly from the fallout of that…