The Geometry of Lies

When city councilman Aldren Voss is found dead in his home office, the verdict is swift: suicide. The note is personal. The case is closed.Caen Morrow doesn't believe it.An investigative journalist with eight months of work on Voss already pinned to his walls, Morrow publishes one paragraph - one question - and waits for the city to react. It does. A reluctant police department. A federal prosecutor he used to know. And somewhere in the city's power structure, the person who staged the scene.What begins as a murder investigation becomes something larger. Sixteen years of financial architecture. Shell companies and rezoning approvals and money that needed to be clean. A network so carefully constructed that no one inside it understood the full shape of what they were part of.Morrow understands.That's what makes him dangerous.The first novel in the Caen Morrow series - a psychological thriller about the cost of truth, the city that hides it, and the journalist who refuses to stop looking.