The Rest Is Silence: A Jazz Age Noir

This is a story about the shadows beneath the brightest days, a tale where paradise is edged with danger, and every rescue comes with a price. Set in 1929, The Rest Is Silence follows a struggling writer and former waterman, Horatio "Ray" O'Neill, bound by duty and fate to Jimmy Karlsen, heir to a crumbling commercial empire. What begins as an act of lifesaving draws Ray into a web of family secrets, betrayal, and moral ambiguity, where privilege, ambition, and the past threaten to drown them both. Inspired by the spirit of noir crime fiction and the timeless echoes of Hamlet, this novel explores questions of loyalty, identity, and the limits of what any of us can save. || This book is being posted on the author's blog first (link in profile). Pre-order available on Amazon ||