The Silent Hour

A convicted murderer asks Lincoln Perry to find the missing daughter of a Mafia Don in the fourth installment of the award-winning PI series - a dark tale of broken dreams and second chances.

Whisper Ridge - Home to Dreams - 6 November 1992-27 April 1996

So reads the strange epitaph carved beside the front door of Whisper Ridge, a multi-million-dollar mansion that once housed the beginnings of Alexandra Sanabria's unique program for parolled murderers. Uninhabited for twelve years, the home still stands as a strange monument to dangerous secrets.

Private investigator Lincoln Perry's first involvement with the house and its legacy comes when Parker Harrison - a convicted killer and former parolee at Whisper Ridge - asks him to find Alexandra, who disappeared with her husband after the failure of the parolee program.

Against his better judgment, Perry agrees to take on the case. When he learns that the skeletal remains of Alexandra's husband have been found, he wishes he'd trusted his initial instincts ...

With the police investigation reactivated and decades-old threats arising, Perry is confronted with a sordid family mystery that will challenge both his abilities as a detective and his commitment to that calling ...

Awards

- Winner, PI Writers of America Best First PI Novel
- Nominated Edgar Award for Best First Novel

About The Author

Michael Koryta became the youngest winner of the annual PI Writers of America Best First PI Novel contest. Michael was just 20 when he wrote the winning novel, Tonight I Said Goodbye, which went on to earn an Edgar nomination for best first novel. Michael's second and third Lincoln Perry novels were Sorrow's Anthem and A Welcome Grave. The Silent Hour, the fourth novel in the series, has also been published by Allen and Unwin.

Michael Koryta is still in his twenties and lives in Bloomington, Indiana. An award-winning newspaper reporter, Michael also works part-time as a PI for one of Indiana's only certified legal investigators.