The Man They Executed

In Northfall, deputy prosecutor Pierce Vance-Hollis has a spotless reputation and a routine he never breaks. Then Detective Emmett Vance walks into his office with an impossible identification. A man found dead behind a diner has the fingerprints of Julian Cross—a convicted killer officially executed nine years ago. Pierce insists the database is wrong. Emmett insists the evidence is right. As the investigation moves from the alley to the county morgue, Pierce works to keep the case under his control. But the detective keeps finding reasons to look closer—and a document carried by the dead man points straight to Pierce. Why was a stranger with a dead killer's fingerprints looking for him?