Description
Peter Vale walks into Central Homicide and confesses to killing attorney Daniel Rourke. There is only one problem: Rourke is still alive.
When Rourke is found murdered less than an hour later, Detective Jack Dorchester and his partner, Simone Avery, inherit a case built to look solved before the body was cold. Vale knows details no innocent man should know. The crime scene appears to support his confession. And someone is determined to make sure the detectives stop asking questions.
As Dorchester pulls apart the timeline, the investigation exposes a staged murder, a coerced confession, a kidnapped daughter, and a trail leading back to an old corporate scandal powerful people believed was buried for good. The deeper he digs, the more dangerous the case becomes—and the closer the threat moves to the police department itself.
The Man Who Confessed Before the Murder is the first Dorchester Case: a fast, complete crime mystery featuring Detective Jack Dorchester and Detective Simone Avery. Each case can be read as a stand-alone story.
