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The Missing Hour
Paperback
Series: Mara Ellison Case Files, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 23 2025
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A woman disappears for sixty minutes.
The system decides it doesn't matter.
When Laura Henson vanishes from a suburban shopping plaza, the evidence suggests nothing dramatic-no struggle, no witnesses, no crime that fits cleanly into a report.
Detective Mara Ellison notices something else.
Laura's phone goes silent for exactly one hour.
Then it reconnects-deliberately.
As Mara pushes past procedural limits to understand what happened in that missing time, she uncovers a quieter truth: some disappearances aren't accidents or acts of violence. They're interruptions-managed, controlled, and designed to leave no trace.
The Missing Hour is a grounded crime novella about institutional power, professional risk, and the cost of noticing what others are relieved to ignore.
Because sometimes justice doesn't fail.
It's redirected.
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