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AUGUST: Three Impossible Fingerprints, One Man Who Was Never There: A Crime Thriller
Three people. Three airtight alibis. Twenty-six fingerprints in a room none of them had ever entered.
A candidate for deputy mayor and his wife are found dead in a house . The alarm was set at ten to one. The chain was still on the door in the morning. Nothing was forced.
The only evidence is impossible.
The fingerprints belong to three people who were never invited, who have never set foot in that house, and who can each prove exactly where they were that night. Four hundred miles away. Inside an operating theatre. At thirty thousand feet.
Detective Redding has a case that cannot have happened.
Then the second one dies. Then the third.
Behind it is a man who leaves marks and no face. He has stood close to these people for years and not one of them ever learned his name. He is not in a hurry.
He has already waited twenty-five years.
A tightly wound crime thriller about a killing that leaves no trace, a detective who runs out of road, and a man the evidence cannot reach. Around 27,000 words — a single sitting.
A candidate for deputy mayor and his wife are found dead in a house . The alarm was set at ten to one. The chain was still on the door in the morning. Nothing was forced.
The only evidence is impossible.
The fingerprints belong to three people who were never invited, who have never set foot in that house, and who can each prove exactly where they were that night. Four hundred miles away. Inside an operating theatre. At thirty thousand feet.
Detective Redding has a case that cannot have happened.
Then the second one dies. Then the third.
Behind it is a man who leaves marks and no face. He has stood close to these people for years and not one of them ever learned his name. He is not in a hurry.
He has already waited twenty-five years.
A tightly wound crime thriller about a killing that leaves no trace, a detective who runs out of road, and a man the evidence cannot reach. Around 27,000 words — a single sitting.
142 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 9, 2026
About the author
Mohammed Azeem
19 booksMohammed Azeem is an independent author primarily writing crime fiction, mystery, detective fiction, police procedurals, and psychological thrillers.
His stories are built around investigations, evidence, hidden motives, unexpected connections, and characters who may know more than they are willing to reveal. He particularly enjoys creating mysteries where readers can examine the clues and form their own theories before the truth is revealed.
His fiction includes standalone crime thrillers as well as connected series, including Detective Cole & The Magpie and Executed in Counterparts. His Detective Cole mysteries often invite readers to engage with the evidence and try to solve the case alongside the detective.
Azeem also writes outside the crime genre, including The Long Way Home, an age-gap small-town romance.
As an independent author, he is involved in every stage of the process, from developing the story and characters to editing, formatting, and publishing.
He believes the most satisfying mysteries are the ones that make readers look back at the story and realize that the clues were there all along.
His stories are built around investigations, evidence, hidden motives, unexpected connections, and characters who may know more than they are willing to reveal. He particularly enjoys creating mysteries where readers can examine the clues and form their own theories before the truth is revealed.
His fiction includes standalone crime thrillers as well as connected series, including Detective Cole & The Magpie and Executed in Counterparts. His Detective Cole mysteries often invite readers to engage with the evidence and try to solve the case alongside the detective.
Azeem also writes outside the crime genre, including The Long Way Home, an age-gap small-town romance.
As an independent author, he is involved in every stage of the process, from developing the story and characters to editing, formatting, and publishing.
He believes the most satisfying mysteries are the ones that make readers look back at the story and realize that the clues were there all along.
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