Twenty-two years ago, Lydia Shaw disappeared.
Now the river has given her back.
When floodwaters recede and expose a submerged car containing Lydia's remains, FBI agents Jack and Becca are called into a cold case that has haunted a small Mississippi community for more than two decades.
What begins as an investigation into one young woman's disappearance quickly reaches into the respected Harcourt family, an old timber business, buried allegations and a night almost everyone involved remembers differently.
Judge Evelyn Harcourt has spent a lifetime believing she made one terrible decision to protect her frightened son. Daniel Harcourt has carried guilt for something he can barely remember. And Michael Rourke, Daniel's oldest friend and almost a second son to Evelyn, may know more about Lydia's final hours than he has ever admitted.
Then people connected to the old case begin dying.
As Jack and Becca uncover evidence that was hidden, altered and deliberately forgotten, they discover that Lydia had been searching for a truth far larger than anyone realised. Every answer exposes another lie, and every lie leads closer to the people Daniel has trusted all his life.
Because the most dangerous secrets are not always buried by strangers.
Sometimes they are buried by family.
RIVER OF SILENCE is an atmospheric crime thriller about friendship, loyalty, guilt and the devastating cost of protecting the people we love.