A Million Dollars for a Murder
When billionaire collector Julian Vane is found murdered, Detective Katherine Sloan expects a difficult investigation. She does not expect to uncover the Blind Docket, a secretive underground auction where wealthy bidders compete for evidence connected to unsolved killings. The items on offer promise access to the truth, leverage over the powerful, and the chance to make inconvenient secrets disappear. But as Katherine follows the money, she begins to suspect that the market is designed to manipulate its customers as much as it is designed to expose them.Forensic analyst Dr. Margot Lin discovers that much of the auction's evidence has been fabricated. The false clues are not harmless tricks: they are carefully prepared bait, created to provoke bids and reveal which buyers fear being connected to particular crimes. Yet one item, known as Lot Zero, is genuine. Its recording points back to the murder of Julian Vanderveer, a case from Katherine's own past. Her signature helped authorize a decision that buried crucial evidence, and the truth threatens to destroy the career and identity she has built around her work.The investigation also draws veteran Detective Marcus Ramos into the open. Years earlier, he concealed the survival and identity of Lily Delgado, a child witness to a massacre at the Santos dry dock. Now information about Lily is being offered to the highest bidder. Keeping her alive means confronting the officials and financiers who have spent years turning murder, silence, and human suffering into commodities. Captain Vincent Sterling, Charles Alistair Cross, and Silas Mercer appear connected to a wider web of corruption, suppressed cases, and suspicious financial transfers.With the auction closing in and the people behind it prepared to erase anyone who threatens their business, Katherine and Marcus follow the trail to the offshore vessel Sovereign Leviathan. There, they must distinguish the manufactured evidence from the truth, protect Lily, and expose a conspiracy built on secrets that powerful people believe they own. Broadcasting the authentic cassette could bring the network into the light, but it also forces Katherine to face her own part in the cover-up and decide what justice demands when the investigator has something to confess.A million dollars for a murder is a tense crime thriller about corruption, fabricated evidence, guilt, and the price of silence. As the characters race to reveal the.
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