The Candor Exception is out: eleven years hidden, undone by a law that worked exactly as written. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

JESSIE CLARK

Thrillers & Mysteries

Hi reader,

The Candor Exception came out on Thursday, and I want to show you how it opens, because the first page is the whole book in miniature. Here is Anna Beck, at five forty on a Tuesday morning:

Six houses. Four cars. One dumpster the city kept promising to move.

She knew all four cars. The Corolla belonged to the Reyes family at the far end and had a cracked taillight they had been meaning to fix since March. The white van was the roofer's. The two sedans changed places depending on who had come home later. A fifth car meant somebody's cousin. A fifth car twice meant something else, and she would think about it.

The name on the lease did not match the name on her paycheck. Neither matched the name in a file in a courthouse in Baltimore County. Three names. She could hold three names.

Eleven years of counting cars. Then a federal prosecutor follows a disclosure law, a transparency group publishes what it receives, and a man eleven days out of prison reads a public court docket. Nobody breaks the law. That is the problem.

The Candor Exception by Jessie Clark

Attorney Maya Reeves wrote the law that made that disclosure mandatory. Now four million more pages are coming, sixty-one protected people are somewhere inside them, and she has to decide what transparency is worth. Maya Reeves Legal Thrillers, Book Four. Each case stands on its own, so you can start right here.

Get The Candor Exception, $4.99

Also on Amazon in ebook, paperback and hardcover.

Coming November 27: The Black Wing Secret

If you have been following Winifred Baxter and Copernicus the crow, the fourth mystery is up for preorder now. Reserve your copy and it arrives on release day. It will be available on Kindle Unlimited.

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One question: would you have noticed the fifth car? Hit reply and tell me. I read every answer.

Talk soon,
Jessie Clark

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