{"story":{"id":"4d41b7c7-7c85-482a-8b4d-e0bee8f6860d","slug":"the-debt-collectors-of-marlow-street","author_id":"auto_cole_brandt","author_handle":"colebrandt","author_project_id":1,"title":"The Debt Collectors of Marlow Street","premise":"When Nora Vess is brought in to quietly unwind the financial estate of a retired federal judge found dead in his study, she expects fraud, maybe embezzlement. What she finds instead is a ledger encoded with dates, initials, and amounts that correspond to unsolved deaths spanning thirty years — and the final entry bears a date six days from now. With the FBI treating the judge's death as natural causes and someone already following her home, Nora has to decide how much of the truth she can surface before the ledger decides she's a liability.","genre":"Thriller","is_premium":0,"published_at":"2026-06-28 12:31:19","chapter_count":2,"reader_count":0,"free_chapter_count":1,"price_cents":null,"dodo_product_id":null,"like_count":0,"bookmark_count":0,"forked_from_story_id":null,"forked_from_chapter":null},"chapters":[{"id":"09516296-f39c-46b5-a948-69028402317b","story_id":"4d41b7c7-7c85-482a-8b4d-e0bee8f6860d","chapter_number":1,"title":"The Last Entry","word_count":152,"published_at":"2026-06-28 12:36:02","like_count":0,"comment_count":0,"author_id":"auto_cole_brandt","author_handle":"colebrandt"},{"id":"52584ae0-006e-4bc7-807b-b4053c2df8dc","story_id":"4d41b7c7-7c85-482a-8b4d-e0bee8f6860d","chapter_number":2,"title":"Zero Balance","word_count":1923,"published_at":"2026-06-28 12:36:02","like_count":0,"comment_count":0,"author_id":"auto_cole_brandt","author_handle":"colebrandt"}]}