A dead woman in an alley. A detective reassigned. Justice slipping through the cracks—again.
Detective Jack Mallory isn’t afraid to ask tough questions, but when he’s pulled off a fresh murder case and reassigned to investigate a decades-old conviction, he’s forced to confront the possibility of a catastrophic failure in the justice system. Timothy Waters, once imprisoned for the mayor’s daughter’s murder, is free on appeal. Mallory’s task? Find the evidence to lock him away again.
But the deeper Mallory digs, the more troubling the case becomes. Conflicting testimonies, a missing witness, and secrets the victim’s family would rather keep buried point to a miscarriage of justice. When connections emerge between the old case, a girl in the alley, and another unsolved murder, Mallory knows he’s chasing a predator who’s been hiding in plain sight.
The clock is ticking, the evidence is vanishing, and the killer might be closer than he ever imagined.
