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The Last Whisper of Innocence: A Family Crime Thriller
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Jackie L. Smith
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Cyril Butterworth spent forty years fixing buildings for Kern County and fifteen years trying to fix his daughter. He kept a notebook - every dollar, every date, every prayer - hidden in the bottom drawer of his desk. The last entry read: $0 - God help me.
Two weeks later, someone he trusted walked through his front door and killed him.
When Cyril's eldest son, Archie - a Marine veteran turned Wall Street trader - is arrested for the murder, the evidence is damning: no alibi, financial motive, and a sister who points the investigation straight at him. Facing life in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Archie calls the only people he trusts with his life - three fellow Marines who drop everything and come to Bakersfield to find the truth.
What they uncover is a trail of meth money, motorcycle club violence, and a family secret that runs deeper than any of them imagined. At the center of it all is a daughter who gave away the key to her father's house - and a porch light that never stopped burning.
The Last Whisper of Innocence is a gripping family crime thriller about brotherhood, betrayal, addiction, and the devastating cost of silence - from the author of Brynn Thornwick: Guardian of the Crimson Crown and Atlas Drummond: Fragments of Deceit.
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