Dead Air

Eleven seconds of dead air, and a town that never stopped listening.Nora Quill used to be the loudest voice in Chicago morning radio — until one terrible broadcast ended her career and sent her home to Wren's Ferry, Ohio, grieving and unemployed. The only job waiting for her is the graveyard shift nobody wants: midnight to four on WKRF, talking to an audience she's sure doesn't exist.She's wrong. One by one, the callers come: a widower missing his late wife's ring, a beagle delivering twenty-eight-year-old mail, a teenager hiding a band in a condemned cannery. Nora and her graveyard-shift regulars — a night-watchman trucker, an ER nurse who never confirms anything, a conspiracy-minded stock clerk, and the operator who's heard every secret this county ever kept — start solving them live, one small-hours mystery at a time.But every night at 3:13 a.m., line four lights up, and no one speaks. Just water, running, and the tick of a clock. The caller has been listening for years — ever since the night, twenty-eight years ago, that WKRF's beloved overnight host vanished mid-broadcast and was never seen again. As Nora gets closer to the voice on line four, she uncovers a flood, a drowning, and a cover-up that the county's most generous man has spent nearly three decades keeping buried — right up until the station itself goes up for sale, on the longest night of the year.DEAD AIR is a small-town cozy mystery for readers who want their crimes solved with warmth instead of violence — where the real mystery isn't whodunit, but who's finally ready to be found.