Everyone in Room 12 Is Lying

By G H Arthur

"A transcript can only record what someone is willing to say. It will hold the lie as faithfully as it holds the truth, if that is what it is given."

Twelve witness statements. Twelve identical errors. And a dead man with no fingerprints.

Trapped by a violent coastal storm at Kestrel Lodge, former court typist Elise Ward is hired to record the identification session of a body found locked in Room 12. The victim's fingers have been destroyed with industrial acid, but the police are certain of one thing: he is connected to the fatal drowning at Marrow Point Sailing Camp twenty-seven years ago.

Detective Sergeant Hanna Reed gathers eleven former camp staff members to give sworn statements before viewing the body. But when Elise reviews the written pages, she spots a terrifying anomaly: every single statement contains the exact same doubled-word error, copied verbatim from a missing 1999 police file.

Someone in the room is orchestrating a cover-up. And on the seventh statement, a handwritten message waits for her: ELISE WARD TYPED THE HARROWGATE MEMO. SHE KNOWS WHAT WE SAID.

As the power fails, witnesses turn on each other, and another guest is found dead in a locked boathouse, Elise realizes the killer isn't just silencing witnesses-they are using her own 1998 shorthand notes to edit reality. To survive the night, Elise must face her own long-buried secret: the single key-stroke error she made as a seventeen-year-old clerk that allowed a murderer to walk free.

Everyone in Room 12 Is Lying is an addictive, claustrophobic psychological crime thriller about institutional secrecy, corrupted records, and the deadly distance between what is spoken and what is typed. Perfect for fans of The Silent Patient, Lucy Foley, and Agatha Christie.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HPXBHNWX
• ISBN13: 9798237256109
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: G.H Arthur
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"