DUE PROCESS

CHAIN OF CUSTODY

A Due Process Thriller

The system didn't fail.
It adapted.

After a death during a lawful enforcement, the city tightens its procedures-not to stop harm, but to manage it. Risk is reassessed. Language is refined. Authority transfers cleanly from one department to the next.

Then enforcement continues.

As more people die, no single act qualifies as a crime. Each outcome is categorized, absorbed, and passed along. Responsibility moves faster than accountability ever can.

Detective Sarah Klein begins tracking not suspects-but sequence.
Officer Tyler Brooks learns that precision can be more dangerous than force.
Lieutenant Marcus Hale realizes that once a system learns from death, choosing to continue becomes a decision.

And somewhere inside the process, the moment knowledge appears-and no one stops-custody attaches.

Chain of Custody is a cold, procedural thriller about what happens when harm doesn't break the rules-and the system keeps moving anyway. There are no villains hiding in the dark. No conspiracies waiting to be exposed.

Only timelines.
Only records.
Only the question of who knew-and when.

Because once a system learns from death, continuing is no longer automatic.

It's intentional.