The Silent Gavel (Alex Hayes Legal Thrillers)
Justice has a sound. This time, it’s silence. When Deputy Attorney General Eleanor Vance dies in an apparent suicide, DOJ prosecutor Alex Hayes is left holding fragments of a conspiracy—evidence of a covert network placing corrupt judges on the federal bench. Vance had hinted at a link to Alex’s own mother, then vanished before revealing the truth. The deeper Alex digs, the more contradictions she finds. Some files paint Vance as a whistleblower. Others as an architect of the scheme. Sealed records, secret payoffs, and a single white queen chess piece point to a dangerous double life. To expose the truth, Alex must untangle Vance’s role in the conspiracy before the same silent gavel that ended her career—and her life—comes down on Alex.
274 pages
English edition · First published 2026 by Liquid Mind Media · ISBN 9781685334598
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