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The Landry Conviction
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 25 2026
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Landry Conviction
A murdered witness. A framed detective. A defense attorney haunted by the one case he never forgot.
St. Louis homicide detective Eric Maddox has spent twenty-four years chasing killers. Then, before sunrise on a rainy morning, the police come to his door with a warrant.
For his arrest.
The charge is murder.
Darren Cole, a key witness in a high-profile homicide investigation, has been found dead in an abandoned warehouse. The evidence against Maddox looks damning: cell-site records, a traffic camera, a weapon tied to his past, and a motive the media is already repeating as fact. Within hours, the decorated detective becomes the city's most hated man.
But retired homicide detective Nick Brennan knows something is wrong. The arrest happened too fast. The media was tipped off too early. And the official story feels less like an investigation than a setup.
So Nick calls Marcus Kane.
Marcus is one of Missouri's most formidable criminal defense attorneys-a courtroom strategist who understands that trials are won long before the jury enters the room. Charismatic, ruthless when necessary, and impossible to intimidate, Marcus takes cases that explode across headlines. But the Maddox case is different. The more Marcus and his team dig, the more the evidence begins to shift beneath them.
Witnesses recant.
Reports disappear.
Threats arrive.
People connected to the truth start dying.
At the center of it all stands Captain Robert Harlan, a polished and politically connected police commander who seems far too comfortable controlling the public narrative. Harlan is respected, media-friendly, and trusted by the same system Marcus is trying to challenge.
But Marcus has learned one thing from years in criminal defense: the cleaner the official story looks, the more dangerous the lie behind it may be.
As Marcus, Nick Brennan, media strategist Dana Brooks, and young attorney Ryan Parker begin pulling at the threads of the Maddox case, they uncover something much larger than a single murder charge. The case reaches back fifteen years to Samuel Landry, an innocent man Marcus failed to save-and the conviction that has haunted him ever since.
Now the past is resurfacing.
Old evidence. Buried recordings. Missing witnesses. A hidden ledger. A trail of corruption that could destroy reputations, overturn convictions, and expose a conspiracy woven deep into the justice system.
To free Eric Maddox, Marcus must confront the machine that framed him.
To clear Samuel Landry's name, he must face the failure that nearly broke him.
And to uncover the truth, he may have to bring down powerful men who have spent decades making sure the truth never reached a courtroom.
The Landry Conviction is a gripping legal thriller packed with courtroom tension, criminal investigation, media warfare, police corruption, and relentless twists. Perfect for fans of high-stakes defense cases, morally complex heroes, and legal suspense where every witness has something to lose-and every verdict comes at a price.
In St. Louis, justice is not given.
It is fought for.
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