The Mercy Code

Malicious Intent Series, Book 2

By: Lois Curran

Narrated by: Paul J McSorley

Golden Oaks calls it comfort care. Detective Braxton calls it something else.

When nurse Alicia Connor is found dead and her notes on suspicious declines disappear, Braxton is pulled into a case the facility is desperate to contain.

Patients aren’t just declining. They’re dying on schedule. The pattern is impossible to ignore. Polished answers, rehearsed explanations, and records that line up a little too perfectly.

This isn’t oversight. It’s policy.

What looks like compassion is something calculated—decisions made early, documented too cleanly, and buried beneath language designed to make people look away.

But Alicia doesn’t fit the pattern. And the closer Braxton gets, the clearer it becomes—he’s not chasing one truth, but two.

One built into the system.

One someone is willing to kill to protect. Because at Golden Oaks, the real danger isn’t what’s written down. It’s what’s been erased.

Will Braxton find that the system is to blame for the deaths at Golden Oaks, and Alicia’s? Or will he find something more sinister behind them?

©2026 Lois Curran (P)2026 Lois Curran

The end of life

Great story plan to make the listener wonder if this stuff really happens. Very good job by the narrator