Isbn: 9798190091854 - the weight of echoes: the dead, the living, and what surfaces hold (2 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Carath Veln, the dead don't stay silent. They leave their final sixty seconds pressed into stone, wood, and glass - echoes, waiting for someone with the right hands to read them.Maret Sollis reads those echoes for the Bureau of Final Testimony. Twelve years of turning grief into case files. Twelve years of not asking the questions the paperwork doesn't ask her to answer.Then a records clerk with no clearance is found dead inside a vault sealed shut eleven years ago - unlocked from the inside. And the echo beneath his body doesn't belong to that room at all.It belongs to a cellar Maret hasn't set foot in for twelve years.It belongs to her mother's house.Her mother - an Echo Reader herself - died in circumstances the Bureau ruled unremarkable, her own echo suppressed before Maret could ever reach it. Now, to learn why a stranger died terrified in that basement a year after her mother's death, Maret must do the one thing the Bureau never allowed: reopen the file, walk back into the house, and read the death she was never permitted to touch.What she finds will unravel everything she believed about the institution she serves, the mother she buried, and the difference between the truth that gets recorded and the truth that survives.THE WEIGHT OF ECHOES is an atmospheric literary mystery for readers drawn to slow-burn institutional intrigue, psychic investigation, and grief written as a crime scene - a novel about what it costs to tell the truth, and what it costs not to.Some things you can bury. Nothing you press into stone stays buried forever.…