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Inheritance of a Crime

Inheritance of a Crime

Paros, Greg

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

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ISBN13: 9798182985741
Publisher: Greg Paros
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

When attorney Alistair Finch is murdered in a high-rise office, Detective Elena Marr finds five sealed envelopes bearing the crest of the powerful Vance family scattered near a breached safe. Each is addressed to a different heir or trusted associate, and one is meant for Julian Vance, a boy who disappeared during a violent storm thirty years earlier. The discovery transforms a seemingly targeted killing into a mystery involving an old disappearance, a disputed inheritance, and a family whose fortune rests on carefully guarded secrets.Marr works within Special Case Review, a unit accustomed to the cases the department would rather bury. As she protects the envelopes and challenges interference from Central Homicide, the evidence leads her to the Vance estate on Blackwood Promontory. The family's accounts of the past conflict with the documents left behind by the patriarch, Vincent Vance. Each testament changes the balance of power, naming different beneficiaries and exposing accusations that could destroy the dynasty.The investigation brings Marr into contact with heirs, legal advisers, and people whose loyalties have been shaped by decades of fear and privilege. The missing child's fate becomes inseparable from the murder in the tower, while the contents of the safe suggest that the inheritance is not simply a transfer of wealth but a reckoning designed to force buried crimes into the open. Marr must determine who killed Finch, what happened to Julian, and why someone is willing to risk everything to control the final testament.Inheritance of a Crime is an atmospheric mystery about family power, institutional corruption, and the long consequences of concealed wrongdoing. Against a backdrop of storm-battered coastlines, sealed rooms, and contested legal documents, Detective Elena Marr follows a trail where every legacy comes with a price and the truth may be the most dangerous inheritance of all.

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