The Granite Schedule

In the Republic of Veridia, President Kessler's controversial travel ban fractures the nation. When its most vocal critic, journalist Maya Lindström, is murdered, all forensic evidence points to Elias Brandt, the president's obsessively regimented chief of staff. His life is a fortress of minute-by-minute schedules and ironclad habits. Defense attorney Helena Cross must dismantle a seemingly airtight case. In the climactic trial, she exposes a single logical flaw: Brandt's pathological self-discipline, the very trait that makes him seem capable of calculated murder, is also the key to his impossible innocence. The revelation uncovers a chilling conspiracy where extreme order becomes the prelude to a terrifyingly manipulative crime.