The Hale Estate

By: John Matekk

When Chicago estate attorney Mara Voss drafts a new will for Eleanor Hale - one that cuts out her eldest son entirely - she thinks it's the end of a difficult but routine case. Then Eleanor is found dead three weeks later. Natural causes, the doctor says. Heart failure, consistent with a documented condition.

Mara isn't so sure. Eleanor left her a note.

As Mara pulls at the thread - a building logbook, a pharmacist's missed call, a daughter who came every morning and stayed forty-seven minutes on the last day - she uncovers a $40 million fraud buried inside Eleanor's empire, a federal confession that never happened, and a killer who is the one person everyone, including Mara, trusted most.

The Hale Estate is a propulsive, emotionally intelligent mystery set in the world of Chicago's old money - where loyalty is the most dangerous inheritance of all, and the most devastating betrayals come from love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GXVD2RFG
• ISBN13: 9798258045768
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"