The Voice Upstairs: A Nora Vale Psychological Thriller: 1

A locked bedroom. A dead woman. A recording in Nora Vale's own voice.When architect Vivian Lark is found dead inside a locked bedroom, the only witness is a recording made moments before her death.On it, Vivian whispers that someone is upstairs. Then a second voice tells her to count backward from the thunder-a voice that sounds exactly like forensic analyst Nora Vale.Nora knows voices can be cut, rearranged, and weaponized. What she cannot explain is why Vivian called a telephone number disconnected since the night Nora's sister vanished eight years ago-or how someone entered Nora's locked home and erased forty-seven minutes from her recorder.With Detective Jonah Reed questioning both her expertise and her alibi, Nora follows a trail of altered memories, abandoned treatment rooms, and recordings designed to make innocent people doubt themselves.The closer she gets to the truth, the less she can trust what she hears-including her own voice.Some voices should never be believed.The Voice Upstairs is the first book in The Stillwater Files, a psychological thriller series featuring forensic analyst Nora Vale.