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The Case Without a Team

The Case Without a Team

Menard, Heather

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798182994422
Publisher: Heather Menard
Published: Oct 27 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Three detectives. Three jurisdictions. Three guilty secrets-and one case designed to bring them all to their knees.Detective Erwin Ward built his career on forensic certainty. Seven years ago, his testimony helped send an innocent man to a terrible death, and the chemical evidence that supported his conclusion may have been fabricated. Now a package containing suspicious lung tissue, a dossier, and a recording of his own voice draws him toward Saint Jude's Foundry in the lawless Oakhaven Basin. He has seventy-two hours to uncover the truth before his past is exposed.In the South, Detective Kyoka Rostova receives photographs and a warning tied to an interrogation she once forced from an innocent young courier. The confession destroyed a life but failed to stop the criminal network she claimed to have dismantled. Her mother's care depends on the pension that could vanish if the truth reaches federal investigators. In the East, analyst-detective Armin Cross sees a dead man's image appear across his secured monitors, marked with the private cryptographic key he used years earlier to leak classified records. That leak helped a dangerous financial network disappear.Each investigator is summoned alone to the same abandoned foundry, and each believes the threat is personal. Their separate failures are connected to Marcus Kane, a fixer whose death is surrounded by impossible forensic contradictions. As the detectives converge, the evidence points beyond street-level crime to a carefully protected conspiracy inside the justice system itself.Their path leads into flooded tunnels, hidden archives, armed ambushes, and a confrontation with Chief Magistrate Arthur Sterling, a powerful official who has manipulated records and people to preserve his empire. The detectives must decide whether to protect themselves, obey the machinery they once served, or expose the truth even if it destroys their careers. Their skills-ballistics and chemical analysis, interrogation, and digital tracing-may complement one another, but trust comes harder than evidence.The Case Without a Team is a dark, atmospheric crime thriller about institutional corruption, manufactured guilt, and the cost of turning away from an inconvenient truth. As a seventy-two-hour deadline closes in, three compromised investigators discover that they were never meant to solve the case separately. They were meant to become the evidence that can bring the system to trial.

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