The Missing Eleven

"Detective Taylor Vale closed the case. The federal prosecutors have their exhibits. The trial is three months out. Everyone tells her it's over. Eleven names on a list won't let her go. They died working construction sites and warehouse floors under an operation built to disappear people cleanly: no records, no complaints, no bodies anyone official has to explain. The trafficking case will convict the men who ran it. It will never tell their mothers where they are. So Taylor starts asking anyway. With Nadia Reeves, a community organizer who has spent years tracking the disappeared through networks the system doesn't see, she begins the slow work no court requires: finding families, confirming what happened, carrying truth into kitchens in Honduras and apartments three states away. Some of what she learns will let a mother finally grieve instead of wait. Some of it will cost more than she is prepared to pay. The law can only prosecute what it can prove. Taylor Vale has learned there is a difference between justice and being known. Eleven people disappeared quietly. She intends to make sure they don't stay that way. The Missing Eleven is Book Two in the What the Dead Know About You series, following Detective Taylor Vale past the closing of one case and into the harder work of finding the people a system was built to lose. A story about what the law can prove, and what only people are willing to carry. Perfect for readers of character-driven crime fiction who want suspense with emotional weight."