A Cook Investigations Novel Against the Tide: A Cook Investigations Novel, Book 11, (Paperback)

<p>A missing person case with no missing person.<br>A system that insists nothing went wrong.<br>And one investigator who refuses to accept the paperwork.</p><p>In <i>Against the Tide</i>, private investigator Ellie Cook takes on an off-the-books case that isn't about finding someone-it's about challenging the official story that erased them. When a young man vanishes along the Oregon coast, every institution involved labels it a voluntary disappearance. No crime. No investigation. Case closed.</p><p>Ellie knows better.</p><p>As she digs through medical records, employment files, and emergency reports, Ellie uncovers a pattern of sanitized truths and procedural shortcuts-systems designed to process vulnerable people, not protect them. At the same time, she's fighting her own battles: chronic pain, PTSD, a complicated relationship with medication, and the fragile balance of her life with Dr. Alexa Mendoza. </p><p>Set in Seaside, Oregon, <i>Against the Tide</i> is a slow-burn investigative mystery about grief, accountability, and the people who slip through cracks no system wants to admit exist.</p><p>This is not a whodunit.<br>It's a why-didn't-anyone-care.</p>

• A Cook Investigations Novel Against the Tide: A Cook Investigations Novel, Book 11, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798261907381
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2025-12-18
• Page Count: 464