{"product_id":"the-serpant-in-charleston","title":"The Serpant In Charleston","description":"In a city where the law is a weapon, the truth is a death sentence.\n\nWhen Detective Linc Hayes, Angela Carver, and the tech-genius Kestrel are subpoenaed to Charleston, West Virginia, they expect a routine appearance in the trial of a Cottonmouth Club courier. But the Kanawha County Courthouse isn't interested in their testimony. It’s waiting to judge them. From the moment they step into the Embassy Suites, they are being watched by eyes that haven’t blinked in thirty years. Here, the records don’t just hold the past—they bury it.\n\nThe atmosphere turns lethal when a young juror is found murdered inside the hotel, his body staged with a jury summons. The killer isn't a common criminal; he is a procedural executioner. Using the cold language of the court—Summons, Witness, Objection, Verdict, Sentence—he is conducting a trial of his own, and the entire city is on the docket. This noir procedural plunges Linc’s team into a labyrinth of sealed files, missing pages, and altered evidence designed to protect monsters and erase the innocent.\n\nA thirty-year-old secret is clawing its way out of the limestone walls.\n\nWith the help of local detective Cole Mercer and forensic expert Dr. Lana Voss, Linc uncovers the name at the center of the rot: Rebecca Vale. A seven-year-old girl who vanished in 1994, Rebecca wasn't just kidnapped; she was erased by the very system meant to protect her. As the trial of Silas Creed collapses into chaos, the team realizes the Cottonmouth Club was never just a Memphis nightmare. Charleston is an older, quieter mouth of the serpent, protected by judges, clerks, and the weight of the law itself.\n\nWhy fans of legal thrillers and gritty crime fiction will love The Serpent In Charleston:\n\n\n\n\n\nDeep-State Corruption: A chilling look at how institutional power can be weaponized to hide the darkest crimes.\n\n\n\nComplex Protagonists: Follow Linc, Angela, and Kestrel as they navigate a landscape where they can’t trust the badges or the bench.\n\n\n\nAtmospheric Noir: Jeffrey Simmons delivers a dark, procedural thriller set against the haunting backdrop of West Virginia’s legal heart.\n\n\n\nHigh Stakes: A race against time to uncover \"Room 0\" before the team becomes the next set of exhibits in a permanent burial.\n\nIn a city where justice is hidden in the files people died to erase, can Linc Hayes expose the Charleston Ledger before his own sentence is carried out? If you enjoy the intricate plotting of John Grisham and the gritty realism of Michael Connelly,","brand":"Simmons Enterprises","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51831424876861,"sku":"wx497z","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0979\/9191\/7885\/files\/v82k2we-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1781404979","url":"https:\/\/simmons-enterprises.net\/products\/the-serpant-in-charleston","provider":"Simmons Enterprises","version":"1.0","type":"link"}