Hole in the Woods

By: Jennifer Graeser Dornbush

Narrated by: Marni Penning, Lauren Ezzo, Elise Randall, Byron Wagner, Timothy Howard Jackson

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.

Hole in the Woods is 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.

©2020 Jennifer Graeser Dornbush (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

victim's justice

the story is ghastly but not gratuitously delineated. because it's based on reality , it's predictable. the readers are good except for the main narrator's constant under current of unexplained trauma.

Good story.

I didn’t care for some of the narrators. Nor enough inflection and emotion. But the story was great and even more riveting knowing it was based on a true crime.

True crime with a cause

Did not want to push pause. Great writing and story telling. The narration was good too.

Riveting story!

Well told. Great voices. Brutal story that deserves to be heard. May she rest in peace eternal. She deserved justice.

Loved it

Great listen. Will recommend to my book club family, sister, cousins and mom. We listen to a book a week