The Unidentified Unit
A Police Procedural

About this book:

In the shadowed basement of the Oregon State Police annex, a decades‑old ledger holds the forgotten names of the unidentified—each entry a silent plea for justice. Detective Silas Thorne, a retired homicide cop thrust into the state’s Cold Case Genetic Genealogy Project, discovers that the charred remains of a young woman found on Saddle Mountain in 1984 conceal a secret written not in scars but in her DNA. With a whole‑genome sequence retrieved from a petrous bone fragment, he and forensic specialist Dr. Vivienne Ramos begin to trace a family tree that stretches back to timber‑baron homesteaders, revealing a match of 210 centimorgans that points to a living lineage and a name long buried.

As they venture into the mist‑cloaked forests where the body lay hidden, the pair uncover clues that the official reports missed: a healed jaw indicating congenital tooth loss, a brass Scovill snap from denim overalls, and the echo of a dog that led a hunter to the grave. Each fragment of bone, each SNP, and each whispered family story pulls them closer to a truth that has resisted identification for fourteen thousand days—a truth that could finally give a name to the girl known only as Jane Doe Number Four.

*The Unidentified Unit* blends gritty police procedure with cutting‑edge genetic genealogy, delivering a relentless, page‑turning hunt for identity that proves even the most burned‑out secrets can be read in the strands of our blood. If you crave a story where science and stubborn determination collide to give voice to the voiceless, this is the novel you’ve been waiting for.