The Cold Ledger
A rain-slicked envelope from the dead shouldn't change anything. But when auditor Cassidy Marsh opens the package from the late Lionel Roussel , a disgraced accountant from the small town of Halverston , she finds a ledger decades in the making, and every column of figures points to a theft so quiet no one noticed. Roussel didn't die from guilt. He was silenced. And his final act was to send the evidence to someone he trusted to read it carefully: Cassidy, a woman who once tracked misappropriated funds for a living and now can't stop counting the bodies buried in small-town balance sheets. Joined by Sheriff Dale Rourke, whose jurisdiction has more secrets than residents, and Greta Lindstrom, the pharmacist who knows which prescriptions never get filled, Cassidy follows the ledger through pharmacies, town halls, and the cold storage rooms of the Caulfield family dynasty. Each name she uncovers , Harlan, Lillian, Garrett, Eli , adds a column of debt. Each receipt she reads tightens the noose around someone still breathing. But ledgers have authors, and authors have enemies. When Cassidy realizes the numbers she followed out of curiosity now trail back to a living counterfeiter with murder on their balance sheet, she must decide whether to close the book , or open it wide enough to bring the whole town down with her.