Fault Line
(2026)(The seventh book in the Alex Harlan FBI Thrillers series)
A novel by Phillip Strang
In the mountain county of Stillwell, Tennessee, the dead all died by accident. A clerk drifts off a wet curve. An investigator falls from a deer stand he climbed for thirty years. A witness burns in wiring he installed himself. Three clean reports, three signatures, no questions asked — until Sheriff Maggie Blackburn stops signing.
She calls the one man who knows what this kind of patience looks like. FBI profiler Alex Harlan put the architect of a nationwide conspiracy behind glass six months ago and handed the country the blueprint along with the verdict. Now someone has read it. Someone careful. Someone who waited years to be sure.
The pattern leads where no one wants to look: inside the courthouse itself, to a man so trusted that half the county owes him a kindness. He doesn't kill for money or for pleasure. He kills to keep the ground from shifting — and the closer Alex gets, the faster it shifts beneath them both.
To name him, Alex will have to trust the failing memory of the one witness time has already half-erased: his own father.
Fault Line is the seventh Alex Harlan thriller — and the opening shot of a darker, deadlier arc
Genre: Mystery
She calls the one man who knows what this kind of patience looks like. FBI profiler Alex Harlan put the architect of a nationwide conspiracy behind glass six months ago and handed the country the blueprint along with the verdict. Now someone has read it. Someone careful. Someone who waited years to be sure.
The pattern leads where no one wants to look: inside the courthouse itself, to a man so trusted that half the county owes him a kindness. He doesn't kill for money or for pleasure. He kills to keep the ground from shifting — and the closer Alex gets, the faster it shifts beneath them both.
To name him, Alex will have to trust the failing memory of the one witness time has already half-erased: his own father.
Fault Line is the seventh Alex Harlan thriller — and the opening shot of a darker, deadlier arc
Genre: Mystery
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