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Voices from an Empty Room

Voices from an Empty Room

Price, Shalimar

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798183011630
Publisher: Shalimar Price
Published: Oct 29 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Deep beneath Metropolis Broadcast Center, sound specialist Marcus Vance discovers an old master tape marked Do Not Air. The recording appears to capture a desperate confession, a gunshot, and the death of investigative reporter Vincent Cole, who vanished fifteen years earlier. But Marcus hears what others have missed: the sounds do not belong to one real event. They have been assembled from different sources, expertly layered to create a convincing acoustic forgery. Buried beneath the manufactured noise is a voice he recognizes-Julian Graves, the station's celebrated technical director, giving an order that connects him to Cole's disappearance.Before Marcus can bring the evidence to the police, the station's ventilation is sealed, his phone line goes dead, and an intruder enters the soundproof suite. Marcus is murdered, but he manages to hide a micro-cassette containing his findings. Detective Eloise Warren, whose specialty is the forensic interpretation of sound, follows the clues with her partner, Carter Hayes. Their investigation reveals that the tape was only one part of a much larger operation: a system of fabricated recordings, erased case files, corporate pressure, and legal maneuvers designed to make official lies sound more credible than living witnesses.The evidence also threatens Eloise's reputation. Years earlier, she trusted Graves's expertise in a case that advanced her career and sent former precinct captain Frank Dugan to prison. Now she must confront the possibility that Dugan's conviction rested on a forgery. To pursue the truth, Eloise risks her badge, acknowledges her own mistakes, and reopens cases the department would rather leave sealed.As the trail leads from hidden archives to an abandoned harbor facility, the detectives uncover the fate of Vincent Cole and the methods used to erase him from public memory. Graves is willing to destroy the original recordings rather than allow the physical evidence to survive. Eloise must reach the master tapes before they are burned, while proving that sound carries traces no amount of editing can completely remove. A tiny room resonance, an imperfect splice, or a voice leaking through an open channel may be enough to unravel years of deception.Voices from an Empty Room is a forensic crime thriller about audio evidence, institutional power, and the fragile boundary between truth and a story manufactured to serve authority. Its silences are never empty, and every attempt to erase history leaves another clue behind.

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