Silence can be the perfect murder weapon — but only if no one is listening.
Professor Alistair Abernathy is found dead in his private library. The scene suggests a burglary gone wrong: violence, disorder, and a missing first edition. The police close ranks quickly.
His widow does not.
Drawn from his quiet life on Phillip Island, former criminal barrister and art restorer Leroy Cunningworth is asked to look again — not as an investigator, but as a listener. To what feels staged. To what is missing. To the truths buried beneath deliberate noise.
As Leroy examines a disputed inheritance, a crime scene that shouts too loudly, and a death that arrives wrapped in theatre, he uncovers a subtler motive — one that depends on restraint rather than force.
Accompanied by his perceptive Kelpie, Ringo, and aided by old friend Jack Flint, Leroy follows a trail where silence conceals intent and the most dangerous lies are the ones that breathe unnoticed.
***Silence Kills***is a refined, atmospheric crime novella — a modern mystery where what goes unheard proves fatal.
