The Evidence Box Some cases end. Others are simply closed.When Drayton's teenage daughter goes missing, the demand is chillingly precise: return an old evidence box-untouched, unquestioned, and without involving the police.Tony Greycourt is not hired to investigate.He is brought in to make sure nothing goes wrong.What the box contains isn't explosive. There's no confession, no smoking gun, no obvious crime. Just paperwork. A procedural note. A train ticket marked "no evidential value."And yet someone was willing to kidnap a child to make sure it was returned.As the exchange unfolds and the girl is released unharmed, the case appears resolved. Officially, nothing happened. But Tony can't shake the feeling that the real danger was never the evidence itself-only the possibility that it might reopen something meant to stay closed.The Evidence Box is a quiet, unsettling crime novella about language, timelines, and the systems that prefer closure to truth.It can be read as a standalone story, but it also deepens the world of Tony Greycourt for readers of the earlier books in the series.This is not a story about catching a villain.It's about understanding how endings are engineered-and what gets lost in the process.