Malice in the Ledger

In the coastal city of Carter Bay, a mentally disturbed war veteran is shot dead by police on a routine call. When a hidden algorithmic ledger surfaces — revealing an immense sum of cryptocurrency tied to the dead man — three people who barely knew him are drawn into a lethal inheritance. As they scheme to claim the fortune, the very technology that promises them a flawless crime slowly exposes the raw cruelty beneath their fragile loyalties. Inspired by Leonardo Sciascia’s cold anatomy of power and complicity, this is a story where money does not corrupt character — it unmasks it.