The Quietest Room in the House

The Quietest Room in the House

A Mick & Mack Mystery

“In the quietest room, where echoes live, the truth hides with no need to forgive.”

When the body of reclusive millionaire Benedict Arliss is found locked inside his study, slumped beside an untouched glass of brandy and a cryptic note, Detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely are called to investigate.

What they find is a room without struggle, a poison without trace, and a man without mourners.

The whispers in Rosedale say Arliss was cold, cruel, and unloved. His staff called him a ghost in a gilded cage. His rivals called him ruthless. And yet… something doesn’t add up.

Why was a second copy of the suicide note hidden in someone else’s handbag?
Why are all the family portraits turned face down?
Why does the will bear a different name?

As Mick and Mack peel back the layers of Arliss’s lonely life, they uncover a story not of murder, but of grief, guilt, and a man trying desperately to atone. Hidden donations. A soundproof sanctuary. A final letter to a brother lost in war.

And beneath it all—an act not of cowardice, but of quiet, agonizing surrender.

Part classic whodunnit, part psychological portrait, The Quietest Room in the House is a haunting mystery wrapped in silence, shadows… and one last plea for understanding.

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