The murder was meant to stay buried-just like the truth they all swore never to speak.When Detective Avery Holt is called to Crescent Lake at dawn, the case feels wrong before he even sees the body. Lydia Crane, a schoolteacher with no enemies on paper, is found floating near the reeds. Bruises on the neck. A message clenched in her fist: They know what we did.Avery and his razor-sharp partner, Elena Marin, quickly learn Lydia once belonged to a strange "truth-circle" known as The Silent Witness Club-a place where five people confessed their darkest secrets in a room no one was ever supposed to revisit. But someone is revisiting it now. Someone is killing them off.As bodies fall, old confessions resurface. A missing child. A destroyed recording. A wealthy judge's son protected by power. And a grieving husband with more to hide than anyone suspected. The deeper Avery digs, the more the conspiracy twists-through lies, tunnels beneath the city, and secrets powerful enough to destroy careers, reputations, and lives.When the final confession emerges, the truth shakes Crescent City to its core. But for Avery Holt, justice never sleeps-and the dead never stop speaking.A dark, atmospheric murder mystery where every secret has a price, every confession has a consequence, and silence is the deadliest weapon of all.