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A Killer's Collection

A Killer's Collection

Smith, Tiffany

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798183011616
Publisher: Tiffany Smith
Published: Oct 29 2026
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Detective Eleanor Sloan has built her career on facts that can be measured, preserved, and proved. But when a transit auditor is found murdered in an abandoned rail terminal, the scene contains a detail that refuses to fit: a spotless yellow diner spoon placed with impossible precision beside the victim's severed hand. To Sloan, it is not a trophy or a random piece of refuse. It is an evidentiary marker-and the first sign that someone is reopening crimes the city deliberately buried.As more victims appear, the objects left behind form a chilling pattern. Each artifact connects to an old case officially stamped inactive, and each victim had a role in the decisions that allowed those cases to disappear. The killer is not simply collecting reminders of murder. The objects have been taken from the original scenes, where corrupt investigators left them behind, and returned as accusations against the people who helped conceal the crimes.Sloan's investigation takes her into the sealed depths of Central Headquarters, where evidence lockers and forgotten files hold more than neglected paperwork. Chemical traces, missing docket entries, and the chain of custody lead toward Locker 4B, a hidden staging ground tied to decades of institutional corruption. Captain Marcus Sterling wants the case contained, the evidence dismissed, and the department shielded from scandal.The case becomes personal when an artifact from a long-ago riverbank incident brings Sloan face to face with the blank space in her own memory. Fourteen years earlier, she was found unconscious near the St. Jude River after a traumatic event she cannot recall. Now a physical object connects that forgotten night to a death the department classified as an accident. The evidence suggests that the system's buried crimes may reach closer to Sloan than she ever imagined.A tense crime thriller about forensic detail, institutional betrayal, and the cost of pursuing justice, A Killer's Collection follows a detective who refuses to let official paperwork outrank physical truth. As the list of targets narrows and the past begins to surface, Sloan must decide whether exposing the people who corrupted the law is worth risking her badge, her history, and the last secure pieces of her identity. In a city built to make evidence disappear, the smallest discarded object may be the one thing no one can explain away. Its clues demand patience, and its answers threaten the institution meant to protect the public.

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