Cleaning Up the Evidence

About this book:

The smell of bleach can't cover the scent of a lie. Harlan Spires scrubs death for a living—methodical, detached, and very good at making catastrophe disappear. But when a routine suicide cleanup in a locked fourth-floor apartment yields a brass tumbler pin and a strand of fishing wire where no evidence should exist, Harlan's carefully ordered world tilts. The police ruled it open-and-shut. The physical evidence whispers otherwise. And the only person who believes the dead can still speak is the man paid to silence them.

Pulled into a shadow investigation he never asked for, Harlan trades his respirator for a flashlight, tracing a trail of overlooked residue from baseboard gaps to biohazard bags, from a coroner's blind spot to a detective's warning. Each chapter peels back another layer of the impossible: a second victim's room, a fabricated note, a pattern in the stains that suggests a killer who understands forensics better than the experts. With every chemical reaction and cold-water pursuit, the line between cleaning up the evidence and uncovering it dissolves.

In a trade where discretion is currency and curiosity is a liability, Harlan Spires has just become the most dangerous witness in the city. *Cleaning Up the Evidence* is a gritty, atmospheric thriller that turns the crime scene procedural inside out—where the guy with the mop and the hazmat suit sees what the detectives missed, and the truth refuses to stay buried beneath the floorboards.