Chain of Custody

By Alex Hard

In Marrow County, nobody broke a single rule.

In 1999, Delia Rell was convicted of murdering her husband. Her brother was the deputy who worked the scene. Her father's oldest friend was the coroner. The judge's wife was the victim's aunt. Every form was signed. Every procedure was followed. There is no rule in the state of Missouri that any of them violated, and that is the problem.

Twenty-five years later, a Chicago podcast producer comes down to find the man who made the evidence disappear.

She finds something worse. She finds that nobody did it. That the glove went missing the way things go missing - through a filing convention, a blank line on a form, and a county where everybody is kin and nobody ever has to say anything out loud.

And then she makes six episodes about it. And nine million people listen. And it works.

That's the horror.

CHAIN OF CUSTODY is a novel about a machine that runs perfectly, staffed entirely by people who love each other, and a woman who has been holding one thing for twenty-four years that nobody ever asked her for.

For readers who want the truth more than they want an answer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9GRGRW6
• ISBN13: 9798187940592
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"