The Trailing Shadow

In the rain-slicked streets of Northbridge, private investigator Leo Vance is hired to tail Arthur Crain, a disability claimant whose alleged back injury smells of fraud. As Vance documents Crain's secret agility, he realizes a hooded figure is mirroring his every step. When Crain is found murdered and Vance becomes the prime suspect, the hunter and the mysterious stalker are forced into a deadlock in an abandoned welfare office. There, they uncover that the so-called "perfect crime" was never a masterful plan—only a lethal combination of bureaucratic negligence, personal apathy, and sheer dumb luck.