The Silent Witness Club

<p>The murder was meant to stay buried-just like the truth they all swore never to speak.</p><p>When Detective Avery Holt is called to Crescent Lake at dawn the case feels wrong before he even sees the body. Lydia Crane a schoolteacher with no enemies on paper is found floating near the reeds. Bruises on the neck. A message clenched in her fist: <em>They know what we did.</em></p><p>Avery and his razor-sharp partner Elena Marin quickly learn Lydia once belonged to a strange truth-circle known as <strong>The Silent Witness Club</strong>-a place where five people confessed their darkest secrets in a room no one was ever supposed to revisit. But someone is revisiting it now. Someone is killing them off.</p><p>As bodies fall old confessions resurface. A missing child. A destroyed recording. A wealthy judge's son protected by power. And a grieving husband with more to hide than anyone suspected. The deeper Avery digs the more the conspiracy twists-through lies tunnels beneath the city and secrets powerful enough to destroy careers reputations and lives.</p><p>When the final confession emerges the truth shakes Crescent City to its core. But for Avery Holt justice never sleeps-and the dead never stop speaking.</p><p>A dark atmospheric murder mystery where every secret has a price every confession has a consequence and silence is the deadliest weapon of all.</p>