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What the Dying Man Said
Paperback
Publisher Price: $57.60
ISBN13: 9782484797911
Publisher: Rowan Delacque
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He has nine days to live, one language left, and four names nobody has said out loud in forty years.
Freelance court interpreter Marisa Teixeira takes a single hospice shift because it pays double. Four hours, one dying stranger, a statement to be recorded and witnessed - routine work, the kind she has done a thousand times.
Then the old man tells her he drove the truck.
In October 1979, a twenty-four-year-old bookkeeper named Odette Vieira found six fires, six insurance settlements, and one dead man in a one-page report - and vanished eleven days later. Now the man who put her in the ground is dying, and he wants it said correctly, in the language he was born in, by someone licensed to say exactly what he said.
By morning, Marisa's certification is suspended. By Friday she is being sued - not for lying, but for speaking. The people named in that room are a United States senator, a developer worth half a billion dollars, and a justice of the state's highest court, and every one of them has spent forty years never having to say no in writing.
The ground where Odette Vieira lies is now the northeast corner of a waterfront redevelopment. In six weeks, eleven drilled shafts will go straight through it.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- A dual-timeline suspense novel that cuts between 1979 and the present, chapter by chapter
- A propulsive, plot-forward thriller built for one or two sittings
- A heroine whose only weapon is professional procedure - and a code of ethics turned against her
- A vanished woman who is a character, not a corpse: nineteen days, told from the inside
- An ending that refuses easy justice and earns every inch of what it does deliver
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