The Missing Second

<p><strong>THE MISSING SECOND</strong></p><p><strong>A Kit Gable Mystery</strong></p><p><strong>The police saw a closed case. Kit Gable heard a cut.</strong></p><p>Kit Gable prefers the company of machines to people. People are loud chaotic and lie. Machines are precise logical and-if you know how to listen-they always tell the truth.</p><p>As an evidence digitization specialist for the London Met Kit spends her days in a silent basement archiving the city's darkest history. Her world is one of safe predictable patterns. Until she loads Tape #4.</p><p>It is the confession of the Millennium Killer the man convicted of abducting five people on New Year's Eve 1999. The case has been cold for twenty-five years. The man is in prison. The story is over.</p><p>But Kit hears a ghost in the machine.</p><p>Hidden in the magnetic hiss of the vintage tape is a microscopic anomaly. To anyone else it's a glitch. To Kit's ears it is a violent tear in reality. Someone physically spliced the tape two decades ago removing exactly <strong>1.5 seconds</strong> of audio.</p><p>Using her collection of restored analog tech Kit reconstructs the missing second. She retrieves a single whispered name-one that proves the man behind bars is innocent and the real monster has been walking free for a quarter of a century.</p><p>But you cannot resurrect the past without waking the dead. As Kit pulls at the thread of the recording she attracts the attention of a killer who thought his secret was safe in the silence.</p><p>Now forced out of her sanctuary and into the chaotic world she fears Kit must trust the only detective who believes her: the disgraced DI Miller. Together they have to solve a murder that already happened-before the killer ensures Kit never hears anything again.</p><p><strong>In a city full of noise the truth is the only thing that doesn't make a sound.</strong></p>