No Record of This Call: A Night Desk Novel Boek

Maren Cole has worked the night desk at Kessick County Communications for fifteen years. She arrives twenty minutes early and sits in her car to become nobody, because for eight hours she will be a voice, and nothing else. She knows the shape of a kitchen from the echo behind a caller. She knows a lie from the breath before it. She knows every voice in the county. At twelve minutes past three on a Tuesday in October, a man calls to report an intruder in a house on Fenwick Road. He is calm. He is outside, in the trees. And halfway through the call he says a name that only one person has ever called her, a brother whose truck was found at the river six years ago with the keys still in it. The deputy finds the house empty. In the morning, the call is not in the log. Not deleted. Not flagged. Never there. Over eight consecutive night shifts, Maren has to work out whether the calls are real, who inside her own building can make a call vanish, and why her brother would come back now, in the one way that leaves no trace. The answer sits at the front of the room, at the supervisor's desk, where the woman who sat beside her at the river for nineteen days has been typing quietly every night for six years. Told in strict real time across eight nights, one shift per night, No Record of This Call is a psychological thriller about listening, about what a voice carries and what a system is built to forget. It is the first book in The Night Desk series: one dispatcher, one call per book.