Some voices refuse to stay silent...
Now Jack is dead, and nobody knows which of those thousands of voices killed him.
Ruth and Aaron begin working through his final broadcasts and discover that in the weeks before his murder, Jack had become obsessed with one particular caller—a woman who claimed her husband was going to kill her. Jack tried to help. Then the calls abruptly stopped.
The police can find no record of the woman. No missing-person report matches her story. Even the telephone number she called from doesn't exist.
Everyone assumes she was another lonely listener inventing a life for attention.
Ruth doesn't.
As she digs deeper into Jack's private recordings, Ruth discovers that he had secretly begun searching for the woman himself. His investigation took him into a small community where everybody seems to recognize the details of the caller's story—and nobody admits recognizing her.
Then another woman disappears.
For Ruth, finding the mysterious caller becomes more than the key to Jack Bell's murder. Somewhere behind that frightened voice is a woman who may still be alive, a killer who already murdered one person for listening—and a secret an entire town seems determined to keep off the air.
And Ruth Baker has never been very good at being told to stop asking questions.
Genre: Mystery
When a popular late-night radio host is murdered during his live broadcast, Texas Ranger Ruth Baker hears something in the recording that everyone else dismisses—a frightened woman's voice whispering three words just before the transmission goes dead.
The victim, Jack Bell, built his reputation listening to people nobody else would. Every night, insomniacs, truckers, lonely wives, angry husbands and troubled strangers called his show from across rural Texas. Some wanted advice. Some wanted company. Some confessed things they would never tell another living soul.Now Jack is dead, and nobody knows which of those thousands of voices killed him.
Ruth and Aaron begin working through his final broadcasts and discover that in the weeks before his murder, Jack had become obsessed with one particular caller—a woman who claimed her husband was going to kill her. Jack tried to help. Then the calls abruptly stopped.
The police can find no record of the woman. No missing-person report matches her story. Even the telephone number she called from doesn't exist.
Everyone assumes she was another lonely listener inventing a life for attention.
Ruth doesn't.
As she digs deeper into Jack's private recordings, Ruth discovers that he had secretly begun searching for the woman himself. His investigation took him into a small community where everybody seems to recognize the details of the caller's story—and nobody admits recognizing her.
Then another woman disappears.
For Ruth, finding the mysterious caller becomes more than the key to Jack Bell's murder. Somewhere behind that frightened voice is a woman who may still be alive, a killer who already murdered one person for listening—and a secret an entire town seems determined to keep off the air.
And Ruth Baker has never been very good at being told to stop asking questions.
DEAD AIR is an unrelenting, high-stakes mystery thriller packed with deadly secrets, shocking twists, and the trademark emotional punch Baker & Tate fans have come to love.
Each book in the Baker & Tate series is a complete story that can be read on its own.Genre: Mystery