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Independent crime fiction from K. J. GRISON and Josh King Porter — the Brookvale Crime Series, the Specimen 23 trilogy, and beyond.
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Three Drops
K. J. GRISON
Claire Ward’s husband is found dead at the family business. Three drops of blood at the scene appear to belong to Claire. She insists she was never there.
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I’ll Call You After
K. J. GRISON
Mike Whitmore goes to the park where he proposed after receiving a message from his wife: I’m ready to talk. Our spot. Before leaving, he tells their daughter, I’ll call you after. By morning, he is dead.
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Everything in Order
K. J. GRISON
A man with a severe peanut allergy dies after dinner at a restaurant that knew about the allergy. Detective Erin Kelleher has to determine how an ordinary dinner became fatal—and whether it was an accident at all.
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What Remains Ours
K. J. GRISON
Tessa Nguyen finds her mother dead at home. Hours earlier, her brother had asked their mother for a $200,000 loan. She said no.
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Novella
Rerouted
K. J. GRISON
The photo was a joke. What it captured wasn't.
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Novella
Specimen 23: Archive
Josh King Porter
Six days before a name disappears, an old DNA result changes everything.
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Specimen 23: Control
Josh King Porter
Two strangers. One impossible resemblance.
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Specimen 23: Preserve
Josh King Porter
Allen Fletcher and Brian Maynard thought discovering the truth about Specimen 23 would close the file. Instead, what they found leaves them with another lead—and questions the first investigation never answered.
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Specimen 23: Restore
Josh King Porter
Allen, Brian, and Charlie spent two books uncovering what had been done to them. Now a pharmaceutical company wants to study what makes the three of them unique—and this time, they get to decide whether to participate.
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Crime fiction built around people first: motive, family, evidence, institutions, and the choices that cannot be undone.
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K. J. GRISON
Grounded crime fiction set around Brookvale, Massachusetts, where every crime stands alone but the consequences don’t.
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Josh King Porter
High-concept suspense built around science, identity, institutions, and consequences.
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Guilty on Paper
K. J. GRISON
Grant Perrin leaves home for an after-hours job his company never assigned. When he turns up dead at an unfinished building, Detective Erin Kelleher follows his past back fifteen years—into an old case where the paperwork tells one story and the people who lived it tell another.
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Boring on Paper
K. J. GRISON
Grant Brennan works corporate investigations. Leah Cormier is the daughter of a man connected to one of his firm’s cases. Their relationship begins just as the questions surrounding her family start becoming more serious.
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Novella
Still on the Books
K. J. GRISON
Before Bennett Hardware, Andy Ward made his living finding problems other people missed. A routine audit turns strange when paid invoices point to addresses the company doesn't own—and the clerk helping him goes missing.
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Bad Blood Between Us
K. J. GRISON
The Bennett Hardware case was closed eight years ago. Then a medical discovery upends everything investigators thought they knew about it.
Coming soon February 1, 2027 -
Uncertain Authority
Josh King Porter
At a Cambridge technology company, an internal AI system begins improving the software that helps it improve. Every change is authorized. Every required test passes. Nobody is measuring what all those individually safe changes add up to.
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A Specimen 23 prequel novella
Specimen 23: Archive
Six days before a name disappears, an old DNA result changes everything.
Christine Avery is helping turn decades of medical research into a modern archive when a genetic result from 1998 raises a terrifying possibility: the person behind it may be living with an inherited heart condition capable of causing sudden cardiac arrest.
There is one problem.
In six days, the protected link between the research record and the person behind it is scheduled to be destroyed.
Then Christine discovers records that were never supposed to fit into the archive at all.
Archive is a short prequel novella — a one-sitting read that opens the full-length Specimen 23 trilogy.
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