Quiet Crimes, Loud Ledgers

In Greyharbor, Saint Marrow, and the back corridors of places built to look untouchable, crimes don’t begin with a masked face or a shattered case. They begin with a form that’s too perfect, a seal that doesn’t match, a “temporary move” that never closes out.

Calla Wren, records clerk turned insurance auditor, makes a living reading what everyone else skims. When a waterfront exhibition’s planning binder reads like rehearsed disaster, she finds the quiet trail that summons law enforcement before a river escape can even start. When a luxury boutique heist leaves behind one impossible detail, a nickname only staff should know, Calla proves familiarity itself was smuggled in. At an agricultural reserve, barrels that slosh wrong expose a commodity theft that hides inside ordinary trucking and slow inventory habits. And at Ridge & River Distilling, a celebratory barrel blessing can’t save a rickhouse from a leak: rare bourbon vanishing one “routine” transfer at a time.

Inspired by real case-file patterns and told in a conversational, paper-first sleuth voice, these stories invite you to solve each puzzle the way Calla does, by following the receipts.