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The Wrong Crime
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 4 2026
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Seven years ago, Lorena Ardelli vanished between a hair salon and a café.
No body. No ransom demand. No credible sighting. Nothing but theories.
Her husband, Vincent Ardelli, never stopped looking.
Vincent has spent most of his life inside Verran's criminal world, where fear gets answers and lies usually have a price. When Lorena disappeared, he searched that world the only way he knew how-through rivals, informants, thieves, and men who understood what his name meant.
He found nothing.
Then Lorena's custom bracelet appears in a pawn shop seven years later.
The trail leads from a stolen jewelry lot to a burglarized storage unit, an old surveillance photograph, a corrupt detective, hidden family secrets, and a respectable property company that should have nothing to do with Vincent Ardelli's missing wife.
But everyone is lying.
The problem is that the lies are true about something else.
An affair. An addiction. Corruption. Theft. Betrayal.
Vincent has spent his life believing that if a man lies, you only have to push hard enough to discover why. Now that certainty becomes his greatest weakness. Each new piece of evidence gives him another suspect-and each mistake carries consequences that cannot be undone.
Because someone knows what happened to Lorena.
And after seven years, the most dangerous possibility is no longer that she is dead.
It is that Vincent has been searching for the right woman inside the wrong crime.
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