The Eleventh Witness

Ten statements.
One shared lie.
The witness they couldn't erase.

In 1999, seventeen-year-old Caroline Bell was murdered at a wealthy family's estate in Bellhaven, Virginia. Ten witnesses supported the account that sent maintenance worker Daniel Price to prison. He died there insisting he was innocent. Twenty-seven years later, forensic psychologist Dr. Simone Avery receives a damaged photograph, a cassette, and a note claiming she was erased from the case. The photograph shows eleven people. A child's face has been scratched away.

The recording contains a voice using Simone's name. And an official record identifies her as seven years old that night.

She was nineteen. Working with Rebecca Price, the attorney determined to clear her father's name, Simone follows the contradictions back to Blackwater Point. There, a powerful family's influence reaches into police files, witness statements, and the history her own mother kept from her. But reopening the case does more than disturb the past. Evidence disappears.

People begin to die. And every step toward the truth gives someone another reason to silence the women asking questions. To uncover what happened to Caroline, Simone must discover why her testimony was removed-and what else the accepted story was designed to hide. The Eleventh Witness is a psychological crime thriller about a wrongful conviction, a missing child, and the people who learned to call silence protection. The case was closed. The truth was not.