The Silent Witness

A dead man floats beyond the breakers, and the five friends who swam with him last night are trapped together by a gathering storm. Paul Sumner, documentary filmmaker and the dead man's closest friend, begins piecing together a timeline that doesn't hold—swim trunks drying where they shouldn't be, alibis that shift like sand. But when a sealed letter surfaces, the murder investigation becomes something far darker: a reckoning with a twenty-year-old secret that someone was willing to kill to keep buried. On the North Carolina coast, the truth has nowhere left to hide.