THE LAST WITNESS
“She saw a man die in an alley. She called him three times that night. She cannot remember why. And someone very powerful needs her to keep forgetting.”
Chicago, November. Sara Cole is thirty-four years old, eight months pregnant, and the most dangerous thing in the city’s legal system — an Assistant District Attorney who is also now the only witness to a murder she cannot fully remember committing herself to. The victim: a man whose name she does not recognize, whose face she has never seen before, in whose phone her number appears three times in the hour before his death.
Detective Marcus Webb says he believes her. He is lying. Her husband James says he loves her. He is hiding something. Her therapist Dr. Ross says the sessions are confidential. They are not.
Someone in the Chicago DA’s office is feeding information to the killer. Someone has spent fifteen years building a conspiracy that reaches from a wrongful conviction to the highest offices in the city. And Sara Cole — pregnant, frightened, brilliantly, dangerously good at her job — is the only person who can prove it. If she can stay alive long enough to remember what she saw.
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