A shattered investigator. A rotten city. One last chance to set things right—before everything falls apart.

Still reeling from a brutal case in Guatemala, forensic accounting investigator Sam Halloran throws himself into what should be a routine Chicago Public Schools fraud investigation—and walks straight into a nest of political greed, mob pressure, and buried secrets powerful enough to destroy lives.

As Chicago’s power brokers close in, Sam’s past returns in the form of Catherine Jennings—once his student, briefly his lover, now the daughter of the CEO at the center of his case. Their forbidden connection is both a dangerous distraction and the one thing he cannot walk away from.

With betrayal turning deadly, Sam must confront the ghosts he’s outrun for decades—his family, his father, and the fear that his life’s work has lost its meaning—and decide what justice truly costs when the city you’re trying to save is determined to bury you.

Echoes of Deceit is a standalone Sam Halloran thriller that plunges listeners into high-stakes financial crime, corrosive power, and the price of redemption in a city where the truth rarely survives.

Each novel in the Sam Halloran Thriller Series stands on its own. While Sunday Night Fears explores how Sam Halloran’s past shaped the man he becomes, later books like One Honest Soul and Echoes of Deceit plunge directly into high-stakes financial fraud investigations. The author's real-life investigations inspire all novels in the series. New listeners can start with this book—or anywhere in the series.