The Blood Other: A Marcus Cole Novel

By Victor A-Joseph

James Phillips is sixty-one hours from execution for the murder of his fianc e when his mother calls Marcus Cole's office on a Tuesday morning.

The evidence is clear. The DNA is real. The science that explains it has been sitting in James's medical file for eleven years. Nobody looked.

Marcus Cole - wrongful conviction attorney, former LAPD, working out of a small office on Figueroa Street in South Los Angeles - takes the case with the clock already running. At the center of it is a piece of forensic science most prosecutors have never heard of: microchimerism. James Phillips received a heart transplant in 1995. The blood at the crime scene is consistent with his type. The science explains why it's there. The prosecution has a confession, a motive, and a laboratory analyst who knew more than he put in his report.

To save James Phillips, Marcus has sixty-one hours to prove that what the evidence says and what the evidence means are two completely different things.

His associate Tom s Reyes works the suppressed evidence from the original trial. His daughter Zoe - in the office for the first time - finds the thread that holds the case together. And somewhere in Tyler, Texas, a forensic technician named Dale Pruitt is hoping nobody looks too closely at what he signed his name to eleven years ago.

The Other Blood is a propulsive legal thriller about what happens when no one looks closely enough - and what it costs when someone finally does.

For readers of John Grisham, Michael Connelly, and Scott Turow.

The Marcus Cole Series:
Book One: Twenty-Two Years
Book Two: The Other Blood
Book Three: What the Dead Remember
Book Four: The Shape of a Thing - Coming Soon

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GSMZB74T
• ISBN13: 9798251691122
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"