Salt, Silence, and the Detective's Wife
By Bishop King
Length10h 17m
About this audiobook
Two people who never stopped loving each other, reunited by a body and a silence that could break them both.
The body is discovered at low tide. The detective assigned to the case is her estranged husband. And the last person to see the dead man alive was her.
Nora Maddox came back to Creston Cove, Maine to care for her mother and bury old grief quietly — not to become a suspect in a murder investigation. Not to look across a kitchen table at the man she left eighteen months ago and hasn’t stopped loving since. But Philip Alcott is dead, and Detective Cole Maddox is asking questions neither of them are ready to answer.
Cole has spent his career reading the hidden architecture of other people’s lives. He never could read Nora’s. She learned to grieve in silence long before she learned to love him, and the secret she’s keeping now isn’t about the murder — but it could destroy everything.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length10 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 13, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Acknowledgments
3Chapter 1: Low Tide
4Chapter 2: The State Man
5Chapter 3: What the Harbor Knows
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6Chapter 4: The Alcott Name
7Chapter 5: The Weight of the Past
8Chapter 6: Persons of Interest
9Chapter 7: Old Architecture
10Chapter 8: Tidal Patterns
11Chapter 9: Salt Water
12Chapter 10: What Her Father Left
13Chapter 11: The Son’s Inheritance
14Chapter 12: The Space in the Bed
15Chapter 13: Harbor Maps
16Chapter 14: Other Debts
17Chapter 15: The Detective’s Architecture
18Chapter 16: Permissions
19Chapter 17: The Letters in the Desk
20Chapter 18: The Breaking
21Chapter 19: What the Tide Brings In
22Chapter 20: The Full Account
23Chapter 21: The Arrest
24Chapter 22: Aftermath, Creston Cove
25Chapter 23: What Remains
26Chapter 24: The Unsent Letter
27Chapter 25: True Bearing
28Character Guide
29References & Bibliography
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