THE SHAPE OF A THING — Marcus Cole Novel

Anthony Reyes has been in Salinas Valley State Prison for nine years for a murder he did not commit. The case against him was clean: a forged insurance document naming him as the beneficiary, a workplace accident that looked like an accident, and a jailhouse witness who said Reyes confessed. The man who built it had done it before. Twenty-four years earlier, a freight company founder named Emmanuel Adeyemi was found dead in his home in Fresno. The ruling was suicide. His daughter Grace filed a complaint. No one listened. The man who filed the welfare check that day was Martin Okafor - the same man who had spent five years earning Emmanuel Adeyemi's complete trust by making himself indispensable to the one thing the old man loved above everything else: his daughter. When a letter from Salinas Valley lands on Marcus Cole's desk, he gives it the only thing it needs - someone willing to read it all the way to the end. His daughter Zoe finds the financial thread that connects two frauds separated by ten years and a company name. Grace Adeyemi has been keeping her father's journals for twenty-four years, waiting for someone to come to her door. The evidence was always there. So was the pattern. So was the man who built it. Careful people leave records. >THE SHAPE OF A THING is Book Four of the Marcus Cole series - legal thrillers set in Los Angeles and the Central Valley, built around wrongful conviction, the cost of patience, and the people who carry things long enough to matter.

Pages: 209, Paperback, Independently published