Dead Air at Raven Hollow: An Emma Drake Mystery

A beloved broadcaster dies live on air. Four seconds vanish from the recording. Forensic audio analyst Emma Drake knows that silence is no accident.Emma arrives in picturesque Raven Hollow, New Hampshire, expecting brilliant autumn colors, a charming harvest festival, and the fiftieth-anniversary celebration of the town's beloved independent radio station.Instead, legendary broadcaster Daniel Mercer collapses at the microphone in front of hundreds of witnesses.The apparent cause is a fatal heart attack.Then Emma listens to the recording.Buried inside Daniel's final broadcast are 4.2 seconds of absolute digital silence.Not static. Not equipment failure. Not an accidental interruption.Someone deliberately erased part of the live transmission.As Emma follows clues hidden in echoes, background noise, timing, and silence, she discovers Daniel had been digging into Raven Hollow's past-and was preparing to reveal a secret someone desperately wanted buried.Now the town sounds different to Emma.Old recordings contradict the official story. Gaps appear where evidence should exist. And beneath Raven Hollow's warm shop windows, autumn festivals, and granite ridges lies a decades-old mystery that someone has worked very hard to keep quiet.The closer Emma listens, the more dangerous the truth becomes.Dead Air at Raven Hollow is Book 3 in the Emma Drake Mysteries, an atmospheric, clue-driven cozy mystery series where small-town secrets meet the unusual world of forensic audio.Someone erased four seconds from Daniel Mercer's final broadcast.Emma Drake intends to find out what they were so desperate to silence.