Books
The Merritt Franklin novels
Historical crime fiction where evidence matters, memory is imperfect, and the past rarely stays where people put it.
Book One • Available Now
Every Past Has a Name
Georgia, 1978. Private investigator Lewis Pike is found shot and bound in an abandoned textile mill. The evidence seems to point to Caleb Ward, a damaged Vietnam veteran with a violent past and a missing night.
GBI Special Agent Merritt Franklin sees a different possibility: the scene has been arranged to tell investigators whom to blame. Pike had been following the remains of a classified 1968 operation, and the deeper Franklin looks, the less the official record agrees with the evidence that survived.
The investigation leads through forged medical records, wartime guilt, a powerful local veterans institution, and the question at the center of every cold record: who benefited when the story became official?
Coming next
Merritt Franklin • Book Two
Book Two is currently in development. Reader updates will be posted here as publication plans take shape.