Twenty Minutes

Thirty years ago, Detective Jack Brennan arrested the man he believed murdered twenty-three-year-old Claire Whitmore.

He was wrong.

Now retired, Jack has never forgotten the one case he couldn't solve. Then an anonymous package arrives containing a photograph he has never seen, evidence that disappeared decades ago, and a handwritten message:

You had the right killer.
You arrested the wrong man.
Find the missing twenty minutes.

The photograph exposes a gap in the timeline of Claire's final night and places someone at the scene who was never supposed to have been there.

Jack begins investigating the case again, determined to discover what he missed. But the deeper he digs, the more the investigation he once trusted begins to unravel.

A former suspect has been keeping a secret for thirty years. Evidence was deliberately removed. Someone inside the police department helped bury the truth. And Jack must confront an even more disturbing possibility: his own actions may have helped an innocent man live under suspicion while someone else walked free.

Everyone connected to Claire's death has something to hide. And the missing twenty minutes aren't where Jack thinks they are.

Some cases don't stay closed. They just wait.

Twenty Minutes is a suspenseful cold-case mystery about buried evidence, family secrets, corruption, guilt, and the devastating consequences of choices that can never be undone.