(Orson Carver #3)

Planned availablilty – August 2025

Orson Carver doesn’t usually work for men like Ezra Bokal; rich and powerful, and the owner of Westview Property Development. But when Bokal is charged with the murder of Albert Shipley, his lawyer, a friend of Carver’s, believes he’s innocent. Carver takes the case.

The evidence against Bokal is airtight. Carver and his sharp-tongued partner, Beryl Adams, wonder why they’re working for a man who doesn’t deserve saving.

As they dig deeper they discover a woman who swore she’d never sell her condo to Westview, then she did, and now she’s missing. Beryl tracks her to Florida and finds that Westview’s reach is long, and its methods ruthless.

The laws that govern us are clear; guilty, or not-guilty. But Carver knows that guilt doesn’t always look like a criminal, and innocence isn’t always worth saving.

With two bodies, no evidence, and time running out, Carver must make a deal with the devil to draw the killer out. And it just might cost him his life.