{"product_id":"the-bellevue-basement","title":"The Bellevue Basement","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"1555\" data-end=\"1821\"\u003eSakeem Stephens got into the funeral business because there’s always a body to bury—until he became one. He’s found shot and left in the basement of a run-down apartment building on Bellevue Street, a place where witnesses are scarce and questions are easy to dodge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1823\" data-end=\"2298\"\u003eHartford Homicide Detective Oakland Preacher knows Bellevue Street the way you know a scar. He grew up on that street. He knows the back-lot angles, the camera gaps, and the cut-through paths locals use to move between Bellevue Street and Windsor Street without being seen. Preacher works the case the only way that matters: keys and access points, time stamps and call logs, release paperwork and chain-of-custody, and the small mistakes people make when they think nobody’s watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2300\" data-end=\"2645\"\u003eThe deeper he digs into Stephens Family Funeral Services, the clearer the pattern becomes: money moving beneath memorials and “assistance” accounts, vendors that keep reappearing, and a transport lane that touches grief before it touches a bank. Stephens wasn’t killed by chance—he became a liability to something designed to stay off the books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2647\" data-end=\"2758\"\u003eIn a city that forgets basements like that, Preacher won’t. Not if he can build the truth clean enough to hold.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KeiterBennett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53500048179519,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/0325\/8431\/files\/ErwinHurst_ebook.jpg?v=1780446797","url":"https:\/\/keiterbennett.com\/products\/the-bellevue-basement","provider":"KeiterBennett Publishers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}