The First Correction

De: John Decherd

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The Murderbook Files: Book One — The First Correction

Elaine Whitaker’s death was labeled a suicide, filed away, and forgotten—exactly the way someone wanted it.

Years later, detectives Cal Mercer and Mara Vance crack the case back open and find what shouldn’t exist in a closed file: missing evidence, rewritten timelines, and “procedural decisions” that point away from the truth. The deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes—this wasn’t a botched investigation. It was a managed one.

Their search drags them into a polished world where money buys silence, reputations are treated like public safety, and the legal language of “compliance” hides intimidation and coverups. Witnesses disappear. Records get touched from the inside. And every time Mercer and Vance get close, the system tries to make them the problem.

Then an archive surfaces—Elaine’s own—linking her death to other “accidents” that were never accidents at all. Now it’s not just one murder. It’s a pattern. A machine. And the only way to stop it is to force it into the record—before it erases the proof and buries the people holding it.

The First Correction is a sharp, procedural thriller about what power does to truth—and what happens when someone finally corrects the file.