# The Missing Witness

Author: E. L. Chase · Series: High Velocity Crime · Genre: Crime thriller
Canonical page: https://elchaseofficial.com/novels/the-missing-witness/
Buy (Kindle, free with Kindle Unlimited): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FZRRFJ9Q (US) · https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FZRRFJ9Q (UK)
Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FZW38MCQ (US) · https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FZW38MCQ (UK)
Kindle price: $5.99

> A card-sharp with a junkyard fire behind him, a ledger everyone will kill for, and a woman who may be more dangerous than the men chasing them.

Tropes: Hardboiled first-person narration, Dangerous partnership, Stolen ledger, Chase thriller, Double-cross
Read if you like: hardboiled noir, fast one-sitting thrillers, ledger-and-syndicate crime stories

Eddie Malone survives a junkyard blaze with a ledger that maps a syndicate's payers and killers. Diana wants it too. Told in first-person hardboiled prose, the story runs from burning yards to cornfield chases to a locked vault where the trap is already waiting.

### The feel of the read

The book is told in first person, so the reader is locked inside Eddie Malone's head for the whole ride: his read on a room, his running count of exits and odds. That choice keeps the pace fast, because nothing slows down for a scene Eddie isn't in. The setting moves from a burning junkyard to open cornfields to a locked vault, so the backdrop keeps changing even when the core problem, the ledger, does not.

### Who this book is for

Readers who like their hardboiled narrators talking directly to them, rather than watching a detective from the outside, tend to get along with this one. It also suits anyone who wants a dangerous-partner dynamic where it's genuinely unclear how far the ally will go.

### Format, price and where to read it

The Missing Witness is $5.99 on Kindle, free to read with Kindle Unlimited, and also available in paperback.

## FAQ

**Where can I buy The Missing Witness?**
The Missing Witness is available as a Kindle eBook on Amazon US and Amazon UK and as a paperback. It is enrolled in Kindle Unlimited, so members can read it at no extra cost.

**Who wrote The Missing Witness?**
The Missing Witness is part of the High Velocity Crime series by E. L. Chase.

**Is there a paperback edition of The Missing Witness?**
Yes. The Missing Witness is available in paperback on Amazon US and Amazon UK, in addition to the Kindle eBook.