Rose Hart

First draft

Dead Air on the Mersey

When a Liverpool podcaster starts receiving anonymous clips from a missing woman’s final week, she realises the recordings point to a local man who has spent years hiding in plain sight. As she follows the trail through rented rooms, old neighbourhood loyalties and badly edited truths, the case turns into a race to prove what really happened before the source of the clips is exposed. It is a story about listening carefully, and about how much damage people can do when they assume nobody is paying attention.