A Due Process Thriller by Tobey Alvarez
The system didn't break.
It learned.
After the events of Silent Authority, violence disappears-but certainty doesn't. Cases still resolve. Closure still arrives. The city stays calm.
And no one is quite sure why.
Chief Thomas Reed no longer intervenes. He doesn't need to. The justice system remembers what worked and begins copying it-anticipating outrage, compressing uncertainty, restoring order before anyone asks for it. Arrests follow acquittals. Surveillance replaces escalation. Momentum arrives before facts.
Everything is lawful.
Everything is efficient.
Everything is wrong.
As analysts quietly track the pattern and defenders sense outcomes forming before arguments are heard, one case finally resists the machine. No substitute arrest. No engineered resolution. Just a gap the system doesn't know how to fill.
And the city feels it.
Continuity is a cold, unsettling thriller about institutional memory, procedural power, and what happens when justice becomes habit instead of choice. There are no vigilantes. No conspiracies. No villains hiding in the dark.
The antagonist is inevitability itself.
Perfect for readers who value:
cerebral, grounded legal thrillers
procedural realism without spectacle
moral tension over action escalation
slow-burn system horror
crime fiction that asks harder questions than it answers
Each Due Process novel stands alone as a complete case-yet together they form a chilling portrait of how authority survives long after the hand leaves the wheel.
Justice doesn't always fail loudly.
Sometimes it works too well.
