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The Erased Victim: A Police Procedural
Paperback
Series: The Integrity Files
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 5 2026
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A body with no name. No fingerprints. No identity.
When a man is pulled from the river with his fingertips chemically destroyed and every trace of identification removed, Detective Kade Mercer recognizes something beyond murder, a deliberate, methodical erasure of a human being from the systems designed to prove he existed.
Then a second body surfaces. Same method. Same precision. Same impossible anonymity.
As Mercer follows the evidence from the waterfront to a powerful data corporation with deep ties to city government, he uncovers a conspiracy that extends far beyond two killings, a systematic program to rewrite identities inside a municipal database, shielded by institutional power and protected by someone willing to kill to keep it hidden.
But the closer Mercer gets to the truth, the harder the system pushes back. Internal affairs. Suspension. Reassignment. The same institutional machinery he's spent his career trusting is turned against him, not to find the truth, but to manage it.
The Erased Victim is a meticulously crafted police procedural about what happens when the systems we trust to protect identity become the tools used to destroy it, and one detective's fight to prove that procedure, defended rather than blindly trusted, can still deliver justice.
Book One of The Integrity Files
For readers of Michael Connelly, Tana French, and Don Winslow.
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