A Brookvale Crime Novel
Guilty on Paper
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.
Reads as a standalone — no prior series reading required.
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When Grant Perrin is murdered at an unfinished building, Erin Kelleher traces his past to a fifteen-year-old case that looked settled on paper. The records say one thing. The lives behind them say another.
Grant Perrin leaves his pregnant wife, Leah, on a Friday night to check a job. His company never sent him. By morning, he is missing.
When police find Grant dead at an unfinished construction site, Detective Erin Kelleher begins reconstructing the life he left behind—and the earlier career he once had as private investigator Grant Brennan.
The name change was legal. The past was never hidden. But fifteen years earlier, Grant was connected to a Virginia case that appeared settled on paper.
Now Erin has to determine which parts of that old story were facts, which were assumptions, and why Grant was pulled back into it before he died.