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The Absent Record
Paperback
Series: Bramleigh Village Detective, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 22 2026
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A record was never filed.
A decision was never registered.
And for fourteen months... no one noticed.
Until someone did.
When a routine development approval quietly slips through the cracks of a small village system, it should be a clerical fix.
It isn't.
Because the missing record isn't just paperwork.
A sequence of assumptions.
A silence that held... until it didn't.
The Absent Record follows Thomas Hale as he reconstructs a failure no one intended-and no one fully understood.
A parish clerk who did everything right.
A planning officer who made one wrong judgment.
An objection that was never heard.
A system that quietly let it all happen.
This isn't a case of who did it.
It's a case of how it happened.
And whether the truth-once found-can actually hold.
Quiet. Precise. Relentless.
For readers who prefer tension without noise...
and mysteries that unfold in what's missing.
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