{"product_id":"the-missing-second-9798233888038","title":"The Missing Second","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Morgan Finch\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Ghost Note\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Ghost Note\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Mystery \u0026amp; Detective - Women Sleuths\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE MISSING SECOND\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Kit Gable Mystery\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe police saw a closed case. Kit Gable heard a cut.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKit Gable prefers the company of machines to people. People are loud, chaotic, and lie. Machines are precise, logical, and-if you know how to listen-they always tell the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an evidence digitization specialist for the London Met, Kit spends her days in a silent basement, archiving the city's darkest history. Her world is one of safe, predictable patterns. Until she loads Tape #4.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the confession of the \"Millennium Killer,\" the man convicted of abducting five people on New Year's Eve, 1999. The case has been cold for twenty-five years. The man is in prison. The story is over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Kit hears a ghost in the machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHidden in the magnetic hiss of the vintage tape is a microscopic anomaly. To anyone else, it's a glitch. To Kit's ears, it is a violent tear in reality. Someone physically spliced the tape two decades ago, removing exactly \u003cstrong\u003e1.5 seconds\u003c\/strong\u003e of audio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing her collection of restored analog tech, Kit reconstructs the missing second. She retrieves a single whispered name-one that proves the man behind bars is innocent, and the real monster has been walking free for a quarter of a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut you cannot resurrect the past without waking the dead. As Kit pulls at the thread of the recording, she attracts the attention of a killer who thought his secret was safe in the silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, forced out of her sanctuary and into the chaotic world she fears, Kit must trust the only detective who believes her: the disgraced DI Miller. Together, they have to solve a murder that already happened-before the killer ensures Kit never hears anything again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn a city full of noise, the truth is the only thing that doesn't make a sound.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghost Note","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46860941492375,"sku":"9798233888038","price":1211.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798233888038.webp?v=1769959951","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-missing-second-9798233888038","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}