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A Tape for Every Absence: Some Recordings Don't Just Document the Past. They Testify Against the Silence.
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 23 2026
Pages: 428
Weight: 1.13
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
732 recordings. 1 missing tape. A secret that burned a family to the ground.
When audio producer Leah Mercer is called back to the coastal town of Bellwether following her estranged father's sudden death, she expects a quiet funeral. Instead, she inherits a secret archive: over seven hundred covert field recordings her father made of the townspeople over decades.
But the archive has a gap. The recording from September 14, 2009-the night of the fatal Crow Island fire-is missing.
As Leah uses her professional skills to hunt down the missing audio, she crosses paths with Evan Pike, a local firefighter with his own connection to her father's past. Together, they must untangle a web of unpermitted electrical work, smuggled secrets, and hidden identities. But in a town where everyone lies to protect the people they love, finding the 78 seconds of missing audio might not bring justice. It might just burn down whatever is left.
A Tape for Every Absence is a gripping, atmospheric psychological thriller perfect for fans of small-town mysteries and dark family secrets.
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