What the Silence Says

Dr. Mara Voss has spent seventeen years teaching juries, detectives, and graduate students how to hear a lie hiding inside an honest-sounding sentence. She has never once thought to point that expertise at her own daughter - until sixteen-year-old Elise vanishes after telling her mother two lies Mara doesn't catch until it's almost too late. What follows is a race against a countdown Mara can't see: her daughter, alone and frightened, has walked directly into the kind of high-control group that once stole six years from Mara's own sister - and the only weapon Elise has left is a single, censored letter home. Somewhere inside four ordinary paragraphs, a sixteen-year-old girl has hidden everything her mother needs to find her: a location, a warning, and a message no one else in the world would know how to read. What the Silence Says is a propulsive psychological thriller about the words we use to hide the truth - and the ones we use, if we're lucky, to save the people we love. Perfect for fans of domestic suspense with an unforgettable mother-daughter core and a twist you won't see coming until it's already found you.