THE REST IS SILENCE: A JAZZ AGE NOIR (WEB NOVEL)

 “The rest is silence.” 

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act 5, Scene 2)

ABOUT THE REST IS SILENCE

This is a story about the shadows cast by the brightest days, a tale where paradise is edged with danger, and every rescue comes with a price. Set in 1929, from sunlit Waikiki to the gilded coast of Malibu, The Rest Is Silence follows a struggling writer and former waterman, Horatio "Ray" O’Neill, as he’s bound by duty and fate to Jimmy Karlsen, heir to a crumbling commercial empire. What begins as an act of lifesaving draws Ray into a web of family secrets, betrayal, and moral ambiguity, where privilege, ambition, and the past threaten to drown them both.

Inspired by the spirit of noir crime fiction and the timeless echoes of Hamlet, this novel explores questions of loyalty, identity, and the limits of what any of us can save. It is both a mystery and a meditation. It's a story of friendship, failure, and the silences that remain when the surf has washed everything else away.

THE REST IS SILENCE is available as web novel at https://ellisdelmar.blogspot.com/