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The Silent Witness
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 30 2025
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ten years ago, Claire Carter was murdered in her own living room, her body staged beneath a blood-smeared mirror bearing a message meant not for the police, but for her sister.
Dr. Evelyn Carter survived that night, but she never escaped it. Now a respected forensic psychologist, Evelyn has spent a decade building a life around discipline, expertise, and the careful management of grief. Then a new murder tears the past open.
Laura Peterson is found dead in a scene that mirrors Claire's killing with sickening precision. The body is posed. The blood is displayed. The message on the glass speaks directly to Evelyn. Soon old contacts begin receiving mirrors and notes. A hidden camera reveals that the killer wants more than death. He wants witness, reaction, and control.
As Evelyn and Detective Sarah Lawson follow the pattern, the case pulls them into a buried history of gallery circles, suppressed complaints, staged identities, and the work of Daniel Ferris, a manipulative psychologist with a fixation on reflection, fractured selfhood, and the violent power of being truly seen. The deeper Evelyn digs, the worse the truth becomes. Ferris was never just a killer from the edge of her past. He is bound to her family, to her father's hidden work, and to a legacy of psychological experimentation that may have shaped everything that followed.
Then Ferris takes her daughter.
The Silent Witness is a dark psychological thriller about ritualized murder, family secrets, buried research, and a predator who uses mirrors not just to reflect fear, but to manufacture it.
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