Hole in the Woods
About this audiobook
July 1989, in a sleepy Michigan town, high school grad Nina Laramie heads out with her friends and is never seen alive again. Months later, her skeleton is found near a remote party spot in the forest.
The ME determines Nina has been brutally raped and bludgeoned to death. Fear and anger ripple through this tight-knit community when the case goes cold.
Thirty years later, Riley St. James, a Detroit PD assigned to Nina’s case, is determined to get her first big cold case win despite having a similar past to the victim. Relying on her investigative prowess and gut instinct, Riley tracks down a witness, who saw Nina Laramie’s murder. But as the truth comes to light, Riley must face the killers who want their secret to stay in the Hole in the Woods.
Based on the 1989 true-life murder case of Shannon Siders of Newaygo County, Michigan. After the case went dormant, a Michigan cold case team formed in 2011 and uncovered new evidence that enabled them to arrest, try, and convict the killers, who were sent to prison for Shannon’s murder in 2015.
About the author
Jennifer Graeser Dornbush works as a screenwriter, author, speaker, and forensic specialist. She has developed film and TV projects, is the author of numerous books, and frequently speaks around the world on crime fiction and forensics. She and her family divide their time between Upper Michigan and Arizona.
Marni Penning co-founded Fahrenheit Theatre Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, which was renamed the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company in 2006. While she also performs in contemporary plays and comedies, her stage career has included more than fifty productions of Shakespeare’s plays.
Byron Wagner is an audiobook narrator and voiceover artist based in Los Angeles. He began his career in entertainment at age eight, performing as a magician and ventriloquist for children’s parties, then graduated to theater, radio, TV, and film. After living in the UK for several years, his continuing love of acting and reading have happily led him back to the other side of the studio glass, doing voice acting and narrating, directing, and producing audiobooks.
Elise Randall Modica is a professional voice actor. Trained at The Theater School at DePaul, she narrates audiobooks, acts in television commercials, and records podcast ads, meditation tracks, and more. An indigenous artist with an in-home recording studio, she lives in Chicago.
Rich. Robust. Rugged. Smooth as the velvet night sky, gritty as the mean streets... Timothy Howard Jackson has had a strong interest in creative pursuits all his life in areas such as theater, choir, orchestra, and dance. That said, his original career was in the tech sector for twenty years. When he realized that he really needed to be creative again, he found his outlet in audiobooks. He traded a keyboard for a microphone, and he now works full-time as an audiobook narrator at the foot of the beautiful Wasatch Mountains in Utah. He possesses a rich, robust, rugged voice that lends credibility and interest to all types of materials. Recording sci-fi, mysteries, thrillers, and edgy nonfiction under his name and romance under a pseudonym, he has completed ninety-five books and counting.
Lauren Ezzo, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a commercial voice talent and Chicago-based actor and graduate of Hope College. She has acted in Peppermint Creek Theatre Company’s world premiere of Or You Could Kiss Me. Her narrations have placed her on several “Best of the Year” lists, including AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of the Year list. In 2018, she was part of a full cast of narrators nominated for the prestigious Audie Award for Best Original Work.
