STATIC EVIDENCE
A Novel
Ezra Vale made his reputation hearing what others missed. A gifted forensic audio analyst, his career collapsed after his testimony helped send an innocent man to prison. Now isolated in a remote Minnesota lake house, Ezra spends his nights restoring damaged recordings and listening to voices trapped in obsolete technology.

Then a grieving mother brings him a damaged recording from the night her daughter, Lena Shaw, disappeared ten years ago. Buried beneath the static is a whisper containing information that was never made public—and evidence suggesting someone powerful has been hiding the truth.

Working alongside Assistant District Attorney Nora Kessler, Ezra follows the recordings into a web of cold cases, corruption, buried evidence, and long-held secrets. But another voice has begun appearing in the static: Mara, Ezra's sister, who disappeared twenty-eight years earlier.

Is Ezra uncovering evidence everyone else overlooked—or hearing exactly what he desperately wants to hear?

Static Evidence is a dark psychological mystery where forensic science collides with the unexplained, and the difference between noise and evidence, obsession and truth, the living and the dead becomes increasingly difficult to hear.

- COMING SOON - JOEL STURGIS