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Mystery / CrimeThe Case My Father Never Solved
Thirty-one years ago, five people vanished from the quiet town of Ashenmoor—including nine-year-old Ivy Merrit. Her father, Detective Chief Inspector Gethin Merrit, spent the rest of his life trying to solve the case. He died with nineteen boxes of evidence still stacked in his garage and a reputation built on never giving up. Now his surviving daughter, cold-case detective Calla Merrit, has only eleven months before the fen where the victims may be buried disappears beneath a new reservoir. She expects to finish the investigation that destroyed her family. Instead, she discovers something no one was ever supposed to notice. There are two versions of the case file. Statements are missing. Search maps have been altered. Evidence points in directions it never should have. And buried among her father’s papers is proof that he may have known exactly who the killer was decades ago. The deeper Calla digs, the more terrifying the question becomes—not who took the victims, but why her father spent thirty-one years making sure the case could never be solved. Because only four people were taken. And the truth about the fifth victim begins inside Calla’s own family. To give four families the answers they have waited decades for, Calla may have to destroy her father’s legacy, expose the people she loves, and sacrifice the career she built trying to become everything she believed he was.
New story · 0 savedMystery / ThrillerThe Detective Behind the Crime
Detective Sergeant Marcus Vance is the man everyone trusts to solve the city’s hardest murders. This time, the victim is a forensic consultant whose death scene is almost too perfect. Vance is assigned to lead the investigation beside Maya Lin, a detective who built her career exposing wrongful convictions and broken case files. What Maya does not know is that the killer is already standing beside her. As buried evidence resurfaces, old convictions begin to crack, and one suspicious gap leads to another, Maya starts reconstructing a pattern that reaches far beyond a single murder. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous the investigation becomes—because Vance knows exactly how detectives think, exactly how evidence moves, and exactly how to make the wrong person look guilty. The question is no longer who committed the crime. It is whether Maya can prove what she already fears before the man investigating himself destroys everything that could expose him.
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