BURIED BRIEFS: A Legal Conspiracy Thriller

A murdered police officer. A buried secret. A lawyer who refuses to stop digging.Seventeen years ago, a police officer died in the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina. The case was buried. The witnesses disappeared. The evidence vanished.Now someone wants the truth uncovered.Maya Delacroix once believed the legal system could protect people. She no longer believes much of anything. Living alone on a weathered riverboat and carrying the scars of losses she rarely speaks about, Maya survives by exposing secrets powerful people want forgotten.When an anonymous message points her toward the death of Officer James Cole, she expects another cold case destined to remain unsolved.Instead, she finds a trail leading to Julian Thorne.Thorne is a celebrated businessman, donor, and public figure whose name appears on hospitals, charities, and rebuilding projects across Louisiana. To the public, he represents generosity and success.To Maya, he becomes a question she cannot ignore.Why do court records keep disappearing whenever his name surfaces?Why were witnesses paid to leave town?Why do retired detectives refuse to discuss the investigation?And why does every road seem to lead back to people with money, influence, and something to hide?As Maya digs deeper, old files emerge from forgotten storage rooms. A dying witness begins to remember details lost to time. A prison inmate claims to know what happened. A hunting photograph places powerful men together at exactly the wrong moment.Each answer uncovers another layer beneath the official story.The deeper she goes, the more the case begins to consume her life.The investigation threatens her career.Her reputation becomes a target.Her home is threatened.People she trusts are pulled into the fight.And hidden among the evidence is something even more dangerous than a murder.The truth about her late husband.For years, Maya believed she understood the circumstances surrounding his death. She built her life around that understanding. She carried it through every failure, every mistake, every sleepless night.Now the evidence suggests she may have been wrong.

Pages: 764, Paperback, Independently published