The Perfect Murder

Liverpool, 1952. The war is over, but the city still bleeds. Rain slicks the cobbled alleys of the Central Commercial District as forensic detective William Silas Walker stares into the eyes of a dead bookkeeper,lips blue, posture unnaturally serene, poison coursing through veins long stilled. No weapon. No struggle. Just silence. And a single smudge of machine oil on a derelict desk. Silas knows this is no ordinary murder. It's a rehearsal. When a jazz singer is found dead hours later—pearls at her throat, a feather tucked in her mirror, a pinprick behind her ear,he sees the pattern emerging: a killer obsessed with perfection, staging deaths like symphonies, leaving riddles only Silas can solve. But as the body count rises,including two new victims linked to a shadowy port-smuggling ring,Silas realizes the true target isn't the dead. It's him. And the woman he loves. Armed only with ginger biscuits, cold Earl Grey, a Roman dagger, and his unshakable belief that "there are no coincidences," Silas must unravel a web of wartime secrets, poisoned allegiances, and forensic deception before the killer completes his final act: the perfect crime. From the fog-draped docks to the smoky backrooms of The Blue Parrot, Snitch is a masterclass in period noir—where every clue is a whisper, every pigeon a witness, and justice is never silent.