The Paper Trail — D.J. MacHale

A small town is trapped in a decades-long death spiral caused by dark secrets that have long been forgotten, ignored, or denied. The arrival of an enigmatic stranger tears open old wounds, forcing the people to face the grim truth about the town's past while confronting spirits that many would rather stay buried. The task of unraveling the mystery and freeing the town from its misery falls to the County Sheriff, a single mother who recently arrived with her teenage daughter and has no idea of the horrors they will face over the next twenty-four hours.