A GRIPPING
MYSTERY.
A DEADLY
SILENCE.
When fame turns to fear and the truth is buried beneath the noise, Dr. Elise Harte must solve the case that could cost her everything.
AWARD-WINNING MYSTERY
The BookFest Award Winner
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THE MYSTERY
Elise fulfills her dreams of owning a successful audiology
business and is ecstatic that plans to coordinate her offices’s
Open House, with a local Lab’s advertised roll-out of their new
ground-breaking hearing aid chip, has worked out so perfectly.
Until … Elise receives an agitated call from Tierneigh, her good
friend and employee of the Lab, who overheard a heated
conversation that the chip does not work. Tierneigh is being
watched, so the friends plan to meet that evening at the Lab’s
roll-out celebration, but end up missing each other, until Elise
finds Tierneigh’s body on the floor of the sound proof test
chamber, speaker cords wrapped tightly around her legs.
Elise’s skills at uncovering and addressing her patients’ hearing issues is
put to the test when she learns the unfortunate incident was not
an accident, and the audiology student working at her office has
been arrested for murder.
lise’s personality of determination and risk-taking pushes her
to find the real killer, while escaping an attempt on her own life,
one harrowing night, alone, in a darkened cornfield.
Death by Decibels
Cynthia Merritt is a Doctor of Audiology and author of Death by Decibels, a Dr. Elise Harte Mystery, the first in a series and has been Published. She graduated from San Jose State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology, received her Master’s degree in Audiology from Sacramento State University, and her Doctorate degree in Audiology from the Arizona School of Health Sciences.
- Publisher : C.T Merritt
- Length : 500 Pages
- Language : English
- Dimension : 12.90 x 21.40 x 2.30 CM
Cynthia Merritt
Author
Death by Decibels
It’s been over twenty years since Elise met and married her husband at U,C. San Francisco and left her home city to live in his midwest town of Mt. Harmony, Illinois.
Their twins are grown and Elise’s private practice is thriving… and as much as she misses the big city, Elise learns the benefits of small-town friendships and support…until she finds her best friend’s body on the floor of a sound-proof test chamber and a student working at her office is arrested for murder!
The tables are turned now and Elise fights gossip, the threat of losing her business, and her family’s very real concern for Elise’s safety against her unyeilding persistance to find the real killer.
When a private practice audiologist finds her best friend’s body on the floor of a sound proof test chamber, and a student working at her office is arrested for murder, she risks her reputation and life to expose the true killer.
The story is about a small town audiologist, who after finding her best friend’s body on the floor of a sound proof test chamber… and the student working at her office is arrested for murder…decides to go after the real killer herself, against all demands not to, from the town sheriff and her family.
Their twins are grown and Elise’s private practice is thriving… and as much as she misses the big city, Elise learns the benefits of small-town friendships and support…until she finds her best friend’s body on the floor of a sound-proof test chamber and a student working at her office is arrested for murder!
The tables are turned now and Elise fights gossip, the threat of losing her business, and her family’s very real concern for Elise’s safety against her unyeilding persistance to find the real killer.
When a private practice audiologist finds her best friend’s body on the floor of a sound proof test chamber, and a student working at her office is arrested for murder, she risks her reputation and life to expose the true killer.
The story is about a small town audiologist, who after finding her best friend’s body on the floor of a sound proof test chamber… and the student working at her office is arrested for murder…decides to go after the real killer herself, against all demands not to, from the town sheriff and her family.
When a midwest town’s audiologist finds her best
friend’s body on the floor of a sound proof test
chamber and the student working at her office is
arrested for murder, her instincts kick in to find the
real killer, even if it means putting her life in jeopardy
one night, in a darkened cornfield…