Her father's name is on the kill list. Row 37 is hers.
A kill list. Thirty-six names. All marked complete.
When New York financial crimes detective Sarah Reeves finds her father's name on a forty-year-old Wall Street kill list, she assumes it connects to the insider trading case she has spent sixteen years building.
She is wrong.
Row 4. 2008. Forty-two thousand dollars. Complete.
The network behind the list has been operating since 893 AD—built on a document created by Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians. For eleven hundred years the Mercian Ledger recorded what kingdoms owed their people. Then the Parke family found a different use for it.
Sarah's surname is not a coincidence.
As the case collapses around her and the people closest to her begin to disappear, Sarah discovers that the corruption she has been investigating is not financial. It is institutional. It is ancient. And it has been waiting for someone in her family to find it.
For readers of Daniel Silva, Steve Berry, Kate Mosse, and Scott Turow.
THE MARGIN OF DEATH is book 1 of the Margin of Death Series. The companion literary series, The Bloodline Trilogy, begins with Lady of Mercia.
