Dead Man's Vote
(2025)(The sixth book in the O'Malley Investigations Mystery series)
A Story by Daniel Pelfrey
In the shadow of the slaughterhouse, silence is bought with silver—and blood.
Chicago, 1924. The stockyards feed the nation, but they devour their own. When union organizer Frank Murphy is found dead in a locked office, the police rule it a "heart attack." But his widow knows Frank’s heart was strong—and she has the coded notebook to prove he was murdered for what he knew.Desperate for justice, she turns to O’Malley Investigations.
For Kit Ashworth and Paddy O’Malley, the case requires navigating two dangerously different worlds. While Paddy returns to the brutal slaughterhouse floors of his father’s youth to gain the workers' trust, Kit infiltrates the gilded drawing rooms of the city’s elite. Under the cover of the "Ladies' Auxiliary," Kit discovers a chilling truth: society matrons are ordering hits over porcelain teacups, and the corruption flows from the kill floor all the way to the State's Attorney’s office.
As a massive strike looms, Kit and Paddy uncover a conspiracy designed to crush the city's labor force for good. But in a town run by the political machine, exposing the truth makes you a target.
With professional killers closing in and the police looking the other way, the partners must race to publish the evidence before they become the next casualties of the stockyards.
Corruption runs deep, but the truth runs deeper. Uncover the dark side of the Jazz Age in Dead Man’s Vote, the sixth gripping installment in the O’Malley Investigations series.
Genre: Historical Mystery
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