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. He is the author of five published novels. Two of those novels, “Price of Justice” and “Cornered,” have been translated into five foreign languages and published in several countries. “Price of Justice” won several awards including best in police/crime fiction. It also became a top 100 international bestseller. In his new book, “Every Silent Thing,” Claire Deveraux must find a way to help keep her identical twin sister stay alive while she herself is fleeing from a killer who thinks she has some important missing information. It is the first in The Claire Deveraux series. (Amazon, 2023)

“Every Silent Thing”- 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.