Deserves to Die

By: D.P. Conway

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Marisa Dee Book 3: the case that tests her limits

Cleveland is celebrating the season when the first body drops from a theater box at Playhouse Square. Minutes later, a cream index card lands at Homicide:

“Case reviewed… My verdict: Graham Mallory Deserves to Die.”

Then, when a city official is mowed down and a museum power broker is executed behind hushed doors, Detective Marisa Dee sees the shape beneath the chaos. Someone is auditing power—board chairs, dealmakers, and backroom fixers—and issuing sentences in plain language. No rants. No ransom. Just judgment.

Each scene carries a breadcrumb only a pro would notice: withdrawn library cards, misquoted lines that point to a specific edition, public-records requests that vanish into filing rooms. As the city’s elites close ranks and the press bays for answers, Marisa and her partner, Donna Caruso, race a clever mind that believes justice is a ledger and Cleveland is the balance due.

But every ledger hides a second column. To stop the next killing, Marisa must decide which secrets to expose—and which to survive—before the final “verdict” arrives.

Smart, compulsively readable, and rich with Cleveland grit, Deserves to Die is the third book in a gripping new crime-thriller series featuring Detective Marisa Dee—where conscience collides with consequence, and justice is never as simple as guilty or not.