What you can't hear can be deadly.
Every Silent Thing
The Claire Deveraux Series Book 1
By Alan Brenham
Genre
Crime Fiction
Shy and deaf, twenty-three-year-old Claire Deveraux has worked hard to land her dream job as a foreign service officer at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Yet her idyllic life is shattered when she finds a woman lying on the restroom floor dying from a gunshot wound.
The dying woman utters three words to Claire and conceals a thumb drive in Claire’s pocket. The items are keys to the location of proceeds from a bank robbery. The killer, certain Claire now has sole possession of those items, must find her, recover the code words and the drive, then kill her before she can solve the puzzle and recover the money.
Knowing he is determined to find and kill her, Claire must do whatever she can to keep her heart beating.
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Never Say a
Word
The Claire Deveraux Series Book 2
A political storm erupts when Claire Deveraux, a deaf employee of the U.S. Embassy in France, is abducted at a conference in Rome. The kidnapper, Franco Lazzari, is a wealthy pharmacist who has been scouring Italy for the perfect wife.
Unable to hear, and with time against her, Claire must use all of her wits to escape Lazzari’s remote home in the Italian countryside. Yet neither Claire nor the police know the actual danger she is in. Lazzari is in league with a senior official at the U.S. embassy—a man who is willing to leverage all of his clout to stop Claire being found.
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Breaking Silence
The Claire Deveraux Series Book 3
Silence is like trust: easily broken.
The first time Claire and Megan Deveraux receive a cryptic text from the
anonymous “AMZ”, they decide it’s a sophisticated scam. But when further
evidence of a long-lost sibling starts to add up, Claire begins to wonder
whether there is merit to AMZ’s wild claims...or just photoshop and dumb luck?
As the sisters weigh up the risks of pursuing a ruthless blackmailer’s trail,
another victim is scrambling to keep his secret safe, whatever the cost.
Because no amount of money can make a man bulletproof...
From the streets of Paris to Texan suburbia, Breaking Silence cracks
open a nail-biting mystery that spans decades — and the globe.
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Claire rode the train and walked the rest of the way home. She had only gotten three steps inside her apartment when she realized he was there. The color drained from her face when she saw the gun. Her father had told her once that what goes around comes around. Right here, right now, it had come around for her. A sickening cold wrapped around her like a blanket as she waited for him to end her life in the same room where he had ended Barbara’s.
Everything she ever wanted to do, every place she ever wanted to visit and photograph, flashed before her eyes. She thought about Megan and Boyd and hoped he’d find her and be able to keep her safe. She thought about her parents and wished she could’ve told them she loved them one more time. Same for Boyd and Megan. Claire wondered if she’d see her father on the other side. She wondered if Heaven was as beautiful as they say.
Claire thought about all the things she’d failed to do—things she probably won’t be forgiven for, those she’d let down, and things she wished she could do over. If only she had time to go back and square things up with all of them to make things right. Her mother might cry the whole way over when she came to claim her body. But this guy wasn’t going to see her cry or beg.
“Bonjour, mademoiselle Deveraux. We meet again.”
Claire looked around her living room, hoping to spot a weapon or anything she could use to defend herself. She backed up past the coffee table, quickly glanced toward the bedroom, and then back at him.
She was able to lip-read most of what he said.
“Fate has its changing moments,” he said to her. “I’m here now to let you know this is that moment for you.”
He pointed at her purse, then dragged his finger to point at a spot on the sofa closest to him.
Claire figured he was afraid she’d throw it at him like she did with the patisserie stuff. She would’ve if he weren’t pointing that gun at her. Claire gave her purse a gentle toss across to the sofa. She watched him remove her cell phone. Why he did that made no sense. He was there to kill her, so why was her cell phone so important? In fact, why bother having her toss her purse away? Why didn’t he just shoot her and get it over with? She assumed he wanted to drag it out so she’d break down and cry and plead. That was how he got off.
“Sit,” he told her.
That puzzled her. Was he some psycho who got off by shooting women while they sat on the sofa? He didn’t make Barbara sit when he killed her. He killed her in the middle of the living room floor. Then it hit her. He couldn’t kill her. He wanted the thumb drive and those three words first.
He grabbed a chair from the dining table, carried it over, and then straddled it, his gaze fixed on her. Then he held out the palm of his hand and made a writing gesture.
Alan
Brenham is the pen name of Alan Behr. He worked as a Texas law enforcement
officer for over twenty years and as a criminal prosecutor and later criminal
defense attorney for over twenty-five years. Today he lives in Texas with his
wife, Lillian, where he's working on his eleventh novel.
His first crime novel, Price of Justice, won several awards including best in police/crime fiction. It also became a top 100 international bestseller. A second novel, Cornered, was released on July 13, 2014. Rampage, a sequel to Price of Justice, was released on July 4, 2015. His fourth book, Game Piece, was released in October 2018. A fifth novel, Hidden Intentions, was released on December 3, 2020. His sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth novels have now been published.
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