Bone Merchant (Book 1 of the Fallen Detective Series)

By Keith McCabe

From the author of Rabbit King and Director's Cut comes a bone-crunching detective thriller where murder is wholesale, and the dead are worth more than the living...

Detective Lenny Mallock was one of the best investigators Chicago had to offer - that is until "The Fall" took his life, his family, and his career. Now, he stalks the city's shadows, hunting society's monsters in secret, seeking redemption in a city that no longer believes in it

When a group of teens are caught digging up a grave in the dead of night, Mallock is summoned into a case that reeks worse than death. The kids weren't simply vandalizing a grave, they were selling the remains for profit. When one of the teens confesses they were working for a notorious criminal ringleader, Mallock senses something far more sinister beneath the surface

His investigation drags him down into Chicago's dark underbelly ruled by criminal warlords and corrupt city officials. His only ally, Nikola Bellamy, is a gang member for one of Chicago's deadliest kingpins. Together, they follow the gruesome trail of death where people's organs are harvested for profit. From the shadows, Mallock and Bellamy hear whispers of the ruler of the organ trade, a mysterious figure known only as the Bone Merchant

Each lead draws Mallock closer to the Bone Merchant, the terrifying ruler who controls the underground trade in flesh and fear. To find the Merchant, Mallock must enter the labyrinth of Chicago's criminal underworld. As he ventures deeper into the Bone Merchant's blood-soaked domain, Mallock learns that corruption runs deeper than the grave...

Part detective thriller, part waking nightmare, Bone Merchant drags the reader through a city where the dead don't stay buried-and where redemption means digging up the truth one body at a time

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G1JRF5YX
• ISBN13: 9798273648401
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"