And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling

 

This is a well-written, multithreaded thriller/crime novel. There are a couple of serial killers in it, and while they're not ultra-competent, they're more than enough to make for a plausible threat to the characters they're intended to menace; the small-town police are remarkably competent, overall (there's at least one exception) and remarkably open-minded, as it turns out--one of the POV characters is the acting sheriff, and he's gay. Which--kinda charmingly--turns out to be more of a problem for him than for the rest of the town, at least as long as he's trying to keep it private. There is some complicated tragic past, here, but it mostly serves as underpinning for the character. The rest of the characters are competently done, and there are some nifty turns of phrase lurking around corners.