The Silent Daughter: Shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year

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Chris Morrison’s life fractures without warning. His wife lies unconscious in hospital. His daughter has vanished. Between these two events sits a silence that feels deliberate, as if something long buried has begun to surface.

As hours stretch into days, Chris is forced to confront the uneasy sense that these crises are not separate. The past presses in through small details and unanswered questions, testing the trust that once held his family together. What he thought he knew begins to thin, replaced by the suspicion that loyalty and love can conceal as much as they protect.

This psychological thriller turns its attention inward, tracing how secrecy moves through a family and alters its shape. Set close to the emotional ground, it asks what is passed down, what is withheld, and how far a person might go to keep the truth from those they love.