Three Drops

About the book

Andy Bennett is trying to keep a family hardware company standing when the numbers start looking wrong. Then a body is found on the warehouse floor, and a laboratory result points somewhere no one wants it to point.

The finding is not ambiguous. It is the kind of match investigators are trained to treat as decisive. The people closest to the business, and to each other, have reasons to protect what they know and reasons to misunderstand what they see.

Three Drops is a family and corporate crime story: loyalty, money, and blood ties colliding around a result that will not stay in its assigned place. The forensic result is real. The question is whether everyone has been asking it to do more work than it can.

Detectives, relatives, and readers are given the same material: ledgers, interviews, and a match that looks finished. What they make of it is another matter.