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Dead Storage
Seventeen years ago, Mara Voss was murdered, a drifter named Leon Mercer confessed, and the town of Calder, Missouri, moved on.
Retired homicide detective Nate Briscoe never liked cases that closed too neatly, or cases that never closed at all.
Now back home in Calder after a long career in St. Louis homicide, Briscoe works cold cases the old paper, patience, pressure, and a hard-earned feel for lies. But he also uses a modern tool—ChatGPT—not as magic, but as an investigative assistant to organize notes, test theories, spot contradictions, and help map the logic of a case that never sat right.
When Briscoe starts pulling at the Mara Voss file, the official story begins to crack. Witness statements sound cleaner than memory. Evidence went missing when it mattered most. A dead woman’s notebook points toward payroll fraud, basement access, and a chain of respectable men who thought paper, pressure, and time could make her disappear.
What begins as a cold case turns into something far more a live cover-up with people still protecting the lie—and willing to go to great lengths to keep the truth buried.
Dead Storage is a gritty, intelligent crime novel about old murders, institutional rot, and a no-nonsense detective stubborn enough to read the paper trail twice.
Retired homicide detective Nate Briscoe never liked cases that closed too neatly, or cases that never closed at all.
Now back home in Calder after a long career in St. Louis homicide, Briscoe works cold cases the old paper, patience, pressure, and a hard-earned feel for lies. But he also uses a modern tool—ChatGPT—not as magic, but as an investigative assistant to organize notes, test theories, spot contradictions, and help map the logic of a case that never sat right.
When Briscoe starts pulling at the Mara Voss file, the official story begins to crack. Witness statements sound cleaner than memory. Evidence went missing when it mattered most. A dead woman’s notebook points toward payroll fraud, basement access, and a chain of respectable men who thought paper, pressure, and time could make her disappear.
What begins as a cold case turns into something far more a live cover-up with people still protecting the lie—and willing to go to great lengths to keep the truth buried.
Dead Storage is a gritty, intelligent crime novel about old murders, institutional rot, and a no-nonsense detective stubborn enough to read the paper trail twice.
385 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 11, 2026
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