Silent Depths

Cold Bones Chronicles - Book 1

By: Helen Ashford

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

What if the thing that saves your child opens a door you’re not ready to walk through?

When author and journalist Bennett Carlton takes his young family to a London park, he doesn't expect to watch his four-year-old son vanish beneath the cold surface of a lake. Nor does he expect the mysterious woman who rescues him—a stranger who moves through the water like she belongs to it.

Charlene “Charlie” Morrow is a psychiatrist with a past she doesn’t talk about and a gift she tries not to use. But the lake doesn’t care about her boundaries. Neither does the whisper of a little blonde girl who never came home.

As Bennett begins to investigate the woman who saved his son, what he uncovers pulls his family into a deeper mystery—one tangled in memory, trauma, and something colder than reason. His wife, Susan, starts to question whether their son truly survived untouched. And Charlie must confront the darkness she thought she left behind, where sixteen voices still scream beneath the snow.

Haunted by past cases and a killer who knows her all too well, Charlie is about to learn that some lakes keep their secrets. Others will never let you go.

A gripping tale of second sight, submerged memory, and the choices that shape us.

Fans of The Sixth Sense, Tana French, or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will be drawn into this atmospheric, slow-burn paranormal mystery where the dead don’t always stay silent—and neither do the living.

Curl up in a cozy armchair by the fire, teacup at hand for a listen!

Perfectly cozy mystery. Characters had emotional depth and growth. I appreciate that there are no lurid crime details; the focus is instead on what is done when discovered.
Overall the AI narration was smooth; however, occasionally the wrong word in the sentence would be emphasized, jarring me out of the narrative. It always happened when the word in question has multiple meanings and it was read incorrectly. It was read at the same pace and tone throughout. That said, I would listen again gladly.