The Missing Witness

About the book

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.