Beyond Reasonable: A Legal Thriller (The Sloane Mercer Series Book 1)

She fought for the truth. Now she fears it. When Callum Reeve — founder of one of Manhattan’s most successful investment firms — is charged with the murder of his former business partner, he doesn’t go to the city’s top criminal defense firm. He goes to Sloane Mercer. Sloane has never tried a murder case. She has six years of misdemeanor practice, a twelve-by-fourteen office above a dry cleaner, and a client who won’t deny being in the room when Marcus Hale died. What she has is the instinct to find what everyone else missed. As the trial unfolds in Manhattan Supreme Court, Sloane uncovers a web of buried evidence, a compromised investigation, and a defense built on connections that run deeper and darker than anyone in the courtroom understands. The evidence is real. The doubt is reasonable. But reasonable doubt and the truth are not always the same thing. Beyond Reasonable is a propulsive legal thriller set inside the Manhattan criminal justice system — where the law is precise, the stakes are absolute, and the verdict is only the beginning.