The Dead End Chase

In the rain-slicked city of Port Mercy, Averland, private investigator Julian Vane is hired to shadow Aaron Warren, a man acquitted in the civil suit over Lydia McClain's suspicious death. But Vane soon senses a second shadow trailing his every move. When the mysterious stalker forces a face-to-face meeting in an abandoned dockyard, Vane realizes he is caught in a deadlock with Elena McClain—Lydia's sister. Together, they unearth how a so-called "perfect crime" was merely the offspring of bureaucratic sloth and a chain of absurd coincidences, setting the stage for a new beginning neither anticipated.