Ash and Indictment

In the industrial twilight of Northpoint, Detective Mara Cole volunteers as a living lure to trap the "Graveyard Shift Killer," a murderer targeting former managers of Sterling Grocery. As Mara immerses herself in the night-world of shelf-stackers and security guards, she discovers the killer, Elias Voss, is avenging his mother’s destruction in a rigged discrimination suit. The deeper Mara falls into Elias’s reasoned darkness, the more she confronts a horrifying truth: her own father was the attorney who shredded the evidence that doomed Elias’s family. The real crime was not the blood spilled in the alleys, but the legal violence committed in polished boardrooms that left a woman with nothing but a name to curse.