The Perfect Routine

In the Avalon Federation, Elias Vane is a medical consultant for the National Social Security Administration, known for his inhumanly precise daily schedule. When a disabled claimant who threatened him is murdered with three stab wounds, his obsession with the number three makes him the prime suspect. But as his defense attorney Julian Cross peels back the layers of Elias's compulsive rituals, a single, devastating logical flaw in the prosecution's case is revealed—one that exposes how extreme discipline can be the prelude to a much darker form of perfection.