The Silent Hour by Michael Koryta

A Cleveland private investigator is hired by a former convict to find a long-missing woman who once ran a controversial halfway house, pulling him into a web of buried secrets, violent reprisals, and powerful interests determined to keep the past hidden. As he retraces the program’s abrupt collapse and the disappearance at its center, he clashes with police and the underworld, confronts painful ties to his own history, and races to uncover the truth before he becomes the next target.

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