What the Dead Remember: A Marcus Cole Novel

By Victor A-Joseph

Peter Michael has been in Corcoran State Prison for seven years, serving twenty-five to life, when he writes a letter to Marcus Cole's office.

The letter begins: I was in that house. My DNA was there. I know what the evidence looks like. I am asking you to understand what it means.

His DNA was in the house because he was having an affair with Sandra Bankes - the woman whose murder he was convicted of. The affair ended eight months before her death. The DNA was legitimate. What Peter Michael has always denied is the murder itself.

Sandra Bankes's husband is a careful man.

He spent fourteen months before his wife's death having her surveilled. He manufactured an alibi. He used a parking structure he owned through an LLC to establish his timeline. He planned for the one piece of evidence that would be in the house and arranged for it to point away from him.

What he did not plan for was his wife. Sandra Bankes was also a careful person. She spent four months documenting everything she feared. She left a sealed envelope with her sister in Sacramento, with one instruction: open it only if something happened to her.

Seven years later, Marcus Cole's daughter Zoe finds the forty-minute gap in the alibi. Marcus finds the LLC. And Caroline Edwards opens the envelope.

What the Dead Remember is a legal thriller about the things careful people leave behind - and about whether the living are brave enough to find them.

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: B0GTMJCD7S
• ISBN13: 9798251698848
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"