The Drowned Ledger

A waterproof ledger surfaces with a body pulled from the black water beneath the Ashworth Bridge, and every name inside belongs to someone in power. Investigator Maren Voss arrives at the harbor crime scene before dawn and finds herself holding a record that implicates judges, ship captains, and the chief of police herself. With the tide rising and the waterlogged pages already beginning to disintegrate, Maren has forty-eight hours to identify the dead man, decode his meticulous shorthand, and find out who silenced him before his final entry can be finished. Her only allies are Dael Oren, a forensic linguist who can read what the harbor is trying to erase, and Cassia Thorne, a disgraced harbor pilot who knows every ship that passed through on the night of the killing. But the deeper Maren follows the paper trail, the closer it leads to her own precinct , and to Aldric Fen, the man who taught her everything she knows about handling evidence. Each new name in the ledger becomes a fresh target, and Maren realizes the drowned man wasn't a victim. He was a witness. And someone is still finishing the job he couldn't complete. Now the question is no longer who killed him. It's what was worth dying to write down , and who will die next to make sure the last page is never read.