False Witness
(2026)(Book 11 in the O'Malley Investigations Mystery series)
A Story by Daniel Pelfrey
Chicago, 1926.
A diamond necklace that never existed. A jeweler who knew too much. And a killer with a badge.
When insurance investigator Edward Ashby walks into O'Malley Investigations with what looks like a routine fraud case, Kit Ashworth recognizes the claimant's name from her debutante season. One cold call on an old acquaintance confirms the suspicion: the necklace was never real, and the woman who filed the claim is terrified.
Then the jeweler who can prove it turns up dead.
Kit and Paddy O'Malley find themselves working two cases that are really one, for two clients who don't know about each other, against an enemy who has been watching them both for months. The fraud runs deeper than a single false claim. Four society wives. Four different insurers. Four husbands with manufacturing businesses tied to the same Delaware shell company. Someone has built a laundering operation so careful, so patient, that no single investigator ever saw the whole picture.
Until now.
But the man protecting it carries a detective's shield, and he has already proven he is willing to kill.
False Witness is the eleventh installment in the O'Malley Investigations series, set in the smoke-filled corridors of Prohibition-era Chicago where corruption wears a respectable face and the most dangerous enemies are the ones who know your name.
If you enjoy historical mysteries with sharp plotting, authentic period atmosphere, and characters who earn every hard-won inch of progress, O'Malley Investigations delivers.
Genre: Historical Mystery
A diamond necklace that never existed. A jeweler who knew too much. And a killer with a badge.
When insurance investigator Edward Ashby walks into O'Malley Investigations with what looks like a routine fraud case, Kit Ashworth recognizes the claimant's name from her debutante season. One cold call on an old acquaintance confirms the suspicion: the necklace was never real, and the woman who filed the claim is terrified.
Then the jeweler who can prove it turns up dead.
Kit and Paddy O'Malley find themselves working two cases that are really one, for two clients who don't know about each other, against an enemy who has been watching them both for months. The fraud runs deeper than a single false claim. Four society wives. Four different insurers. Four husbands with manufacturing businesses tied to the same Delaware shell company. Someone has built a laundering operation so careful, so patient, that no single investigator ever saw the whole picture.
Until now.
But the man protecting it carries a detective's shield, and he has already proven he is willing to kill.
False Witness is the eleventh installment in the O'Malley Investigations series, set in the smoke-filled corridors of Prohibition-era Chicago where corruption wears a respectable face and the most dangerous enemies are the ones who know your name.
If you enjoy historical mysteries with sharp plotting, authentic period atmosphere, and characters who earn every hard-won inch of progress, O'Malley Investigations delivers.
Genre: Historical Mystery
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