False Record

When attorney Wally Kelter is shot dead outside his office, Brandon Powell becomes the obvious suspect.

Brandon once exposed Wally’s corruption and helped turn the Kelter family’s courthouse power into public scandal. He has motive, a troubled history with the victim, and a rifle the authorities are eager to connect to the killing. When questionable evidence appears in Brandon’s garage, political pressure, media attention, and old family influence quickly turn suspicion into an arrest.

But Detective Laura McKenna sees what the headlines refuse to acknowledge: the case against Brandon is too convenient.

As the investigation moves beyond the obvious suspect, it uncovers former clients ruined by Wally’s legal schemes, complaints that disappeared before they could be heard, and a network of money, influence, and silence protected by powerful people.

Somewhere inside that false record is the truth about who killed Wally Kelter, who tried to frame Brandon Powell, and why the wrong man had to carry the blame.

False Record is a tense legal thriller about planted evidence, courthouse corruption, political pressure, and the cost of proving the truth when the lie is easier to believe.