A detective vanishes during the worst storm in a century. A grieving daughter who has spent twelve years trying to forget him. And a small coastal town with secrets buried deeper than its harbour.
"Mercer writes with the precision of a surgeon and the soul of a poet." — The Guardian
When Nora Ellison receives a call from the Vanthorpe Island Police — the same department her father once ran — she expects a formality. What she finds instead is a case that pulls her into the same silence that swallowed him: a silence filled with the names of women who disappeared without a trace, one every winter, for as long as anyone can remember.
As the next storm builds on the horizon, Nora has seventy-two hours to find the connection between a series of cold cases and the one still-warm one that may finally explain where her father went — and whether he was the hunter or the hunted.
The Silence Between Storms is a novel about inheritance: of grief, of guilt, and of the specific damage done when the truth arrives twelve years too late.
The novel that introduced Detective Nora Ellison and the haunted coast of Vanthorpe Island.
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