The Foundling Case

Prasanth N M

/ ISBN 13: 9798265846174

Published by Independently Published, 2025

Seller Inventory # LU-9798265846174

Synopsis:

Every child carries a secret past. Some secrets refuse to stay buried.

When an infant is discovered outside an abandoned London hospital with nothing but a brittle paper wristband marked R-317, Detective Inspector Evelyn Hart knows she has stumbled into more than a case of abandonment. The band is decades out of date; they have been connected to missing babies in the US, Canada, Australia, and Britain who were cataloged but never located.

What begins as a mystery quickly unravels into something darker: Hazel, a hidden network that treated newborns not as lives but as numbers, orchestrating disappearances sanctioned through institutions, governments, and silence.

With her partner Farid Malik, Evelyn follows a trail of erased archives, grieving families, and whispers of “replacements.” Their investigation runs through locked basements and forgotten ledgers into violent confrontations with operatives determined to keep Hazel buried. At the heart of it all: Jane Doe 317, a child Hazel was never meant to survive, proof that the past still breathes.

As the case explodes under international scrutiny, Evelyn must race against bullets, bureaucracies, and betrayals to deliver truth before Hazel reclaims the child forever. But exposing Hazel means confronting a chilling question: when systems themselves conspire to erase, can justice ever truly be found?

A taut, haunting crime-investigation thriller inspired by real unsolved infant abduction and displacement scandals, The Foundling Case is a story of identity, betrayal, and voices long silenced.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Foundling Case
Publisher: Independently Published
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New