HIDDEN BONES

A simple favor morphs into a horror story for a cop and her boyfriend.

Eric Evans is a college professor with schizophrenia who was almost killed while helping his now-girlfriend, police officer Susan Marlan, solve a grisly murder. Uncertain whether the visions that helped him on that case were part of his disease or a psychic ability, Eric is profoundly unsettled. The pair, who are both on leave from their jobs, accompany their friend Jake Bergman, a violinist, and his band mates to a gig in Clancy, Washington, famous as the setting of a popular thriller series. The band members, Jake, Madison, Chuck, and John, have a successful show, but Eric has a bad feeling about the mostly deserted town whose denizens are about as friendly as enraged grizzly bears. After Eric has a vision of a man murdered and buried under a tree stump and Susan finds some evidence, they make up a story about Eric’s overhearing a conversation to tell the local authorities: a park ranger and a totally uninterested sheriff. The stump is moved, disclosing nothing but a dead squirrel. Undaunted, Eric and Susan continue to investigate, making a series of appallingly bad decisions that land the whole group in deep trouble. When Madison and Chuck vanish, Eric’s flickering vision indicates they may be dead. Susan uses her connections with the FBI from her former case to ask for help that may be too late coming.

A creepy, violent tale that leaves you wondering how two apparently intelligent people could go so wrong.