Long Since Buried

LONG SINCE BURIED
A novel by Angela Ellen Grey
Book One of the Dakota Killer Thriller series

Some bodies are found. Some truths never stay buried.
A haunting, psychological thriller about twins, trauma, and a town that learned how to look away.

Thirty years ago, a girl died. The town buried the wrong thing.

The past doesn’t fade—it resurfaces.

Thirty years ago, twelve-year-old Sydney vanished. Her body was later discovered in an abandoned shack outside a small South Dakota town, the truth of her death quickly folded into rumor, silence, and convenient conclusions.

Now, decades later, her newly discovered twin—an outsider with a face too familiar—arrives in town searching for answers no one wants uncovered. As she digs into the fractured history surrounding Sydney’s death, she begins to see what the town refused to name: patterns, omissions, and a violence that never truly ended.

Told through alternating timelines, Long Since Buried unearths the long shadow of a single crime—and the cost of surviving it.

This novel explores:

  • a cold case rooted in childhood violence

  • twins separated by fate and truth

  • survivor’s guilt and inherited trauma

  • small-town silence and complicity

  • the danger of reopening what was “resolved”

Atmospheric, restrained, and relentless.
This is not a fast-cut procedural. Long Since Buried is a slow-burn psychological thriller where dread accumulates quietly, memory becomes evidence, and survival is as complex as justice.

    Long Since Buried is:

  • “A chilling meditation on what small towns choose not to see.”

  • “Quietly devastating and impossible to forget.”

  • “A thriller that understands trauma as both personal and communal.”

Long Since Buried is perfect for readers that enjoy:

  • psychological and literary thrillers

  • cold cases and unresolved disappearances

  • dual timelines that deepen tension

  • survivor-centered narratives

  • stories where atmosphere is as dangerous as the killer

Tone & vibe: bleak, suspenseful, emotionally precise, haunting

Inside these pages:

  • a steadily tightening sense of unease

  • a protagonist who refuses easy answers

  • echoes between past and present that won’t align

  • moral ambiguity without false redemption

  • a conclusion that reframes everything before it

This novel contains depictions and discussions of violence against a minor, death, trauma, and psychological distress. These themes are handled with seriousness and care, without sensationalism.

About the Author

Angela Ellen Grey writes survival-driven fiction rooted in place, memory, and the long consequences of violence. Her thrillers focus on those who endure—and on what happens when truth is no longer willing to stay hidden.

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