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Retirement BloodBath
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 11 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Detective Danny Cedar has one week left before retirement.
On his birthday, the daughter of his late partner is found murdered - arranged with surgical precision, each rib placed like a note on a staff. A melody written in blood.
The signature is unmistakable:
The Symphony Killer.
There's just one problem.
Danny helped put him in prison twelve years ago.
What begins as a single impossible case quickly becomes something far worse. As more bodies appear - each one another movement in a growing composition - Danny is forced to confront a possibility that threatens to collapse everything he thought he knew about his career, his partner, and himself.
If Marcus Webb is innocent, then the real killer has been free for over a decade.
Watching. Waiting. Composing in silence.
And Danny was never the detective closing in.
He was part of the design.
Now the pattern is tightening, the victims are getting closer, and the final movement is approaching.
And this time, the killer isn't hiding.
He's finishing something.
Retirement Bloodbath is a methodical, character-driven crime novel that leans into the realities of investigation - where answers come slowly, certainty is dangerous, and every conclusion carries weight.
Blending the precision of a police procedural with the tension of a serial killer investigation, it explores legacy, wrongful conviction, and what it means to realize that the case that defined your life may have been wrong from the beginning.
Perfect for readers of Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane, this is a grounded, atmospheric thriller built on restraint rather than spectacle - no shortcuts, no easy answers, and no villains hiding behind mythology.
Just a killer who treats murder as craft, a detective who trusted the evidence, and twelve years of silence that were never empty.
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