The Silent Fingerprint

In the rain-slicked streets of Veridia, historian Alistair Finch uncovers a buried archive proving the republic was built on a genocide its founders disguised as an immigration enforcement operation. When he is secretly detained without hearing under the same powers once used to silence inconvenient truths, every silent bystander—the reluctant witness, the careerist judge, the intimidated journalist—becomes a fingerprint on the weapon that kills him. This is a crime novel about the conspiracy of silence.