Ashes of the Gavel

When a sheriff's deputy is acquitted after a controversial on-duty shooting, an online mob destroys his family, driving his daughter to leap from a courthouse balcony. Four years later, survivors of the fallen begin receiving cryptic invitations to a closed network called "The Verdict." One by one, the most vicious commenters from that digital trial are found dead—each death mirroring the punishment they once typed onto a screen. As FBI cybercrime analyst Elena Marchetti closes in, she must confront an unbearable question: when the justice system and the crowd both fail, is the only path to righteousness the one carved in blood?