The Corrected Hour

At Merewick’s municipal archive, an after-hours audit is meant to decide which disputed papers can finally go home. Then the director is found dead, and Detective Inspector Mara Venn discovers that every witness has something to conceal—and an apparently convincing account of where they were. As the evidence tightens around one suspect, a small physical contradiction forces Mara to question the one thing everyone agrees on: when the murder happened.

Content notes: Dark themes and violence · Off-page murder and non-graphic discovery of a body · Grief, wrongful suspicion, and financial wrongdoing

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