Missing Evidence, The

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Detective Anna Rodriguez had always believed that evidence told the truth, even when people couldn't or wouldn't. Twenty years of police work had taught her to trust physical proof over witness testimony, scientific analysis over emotional appeals, and documented facts over convenient theories. That belief was about to be tested in ways she never imagined when she opened the file cabinet in the basement of the precinct and discovered that crucial evidence from the city's most notorious unsolved murder had simply vanished. The case file for the Emily Morrison murder was thicker than most novels, filled with crime scene photographs, witness statements, forensic reports, and investigative notes that chronicled three years of intensive police work that had yielded no arrests, no convictions, and no justice for a promising young attorney whose life had been cut short by a killer who seemed to have vanished into thin air. Anna had been assigned to review cold cases during the slow summer months, looking for new angles or overlooked evidence that might breathe life into investigations that had grown stagnant with age. Emily Morrison had been found dead in her downtown apartment on a Tuesday morning in March, three years earlier. The twenty-eight-year-old prosecutor had been working late on a high-profile corruption case involving city officials when someone entered her apartment and killed her with a single gunshot to the head. The crime scene had been surprisingly clean, with minimal physical evidence and no signs of struggle, suggesting either a professional hit or a killer with extensive knowledge of forensic investigation techniques.