Everyone on Yablunska Street is documenting a war crime. Major Andriy Koval, Kyiv Homicide, is the only one who sees a murder.
Bucha, spring 2022. Andriy walks the street in a borrowed SBU uniform, officially a forensic specialist on the war-crimes task force, privately searching every dead face for his wife Olena and his daughter Katya. Grief has hollowed him out; twenty years of crime scenes keep him upright. Then he kneels beside three men shot execution-style in a trampled garden and notices the bindings. Not zip ties. Industrial black electrical cable, cut to uniform lengths, a type he last handled during an arson case at a Kyiv factory years before. Somebody came prepared. Somebody has a system. Somebody has a signature.
In a primary school gymnasium full of server racks he finds Sofiia Lutska, an investigator who works in satellite imagery and intercepted data rather than mud, and together they begin to assemble a case nobody else knows exists: one organized hand inside a national atrocity, a man the trenches whisper about as the Myasnik, the Butcher. The ledger is open. Andriy intends to close it himself.
The Butcher’s Ledger is a standalone novel by A. Lewis Gattenby.
Complete, unabridged audiobook – 2:02:20. Chapter markers below.
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Chapters:
0:00 Chapter 1 The Silence of Yablunska Street
10:59 Chapter 2 The Digital Ghost
23:26 Chapter 3 The Signature
33:28 Chapter 4 The Cold Trail
46:44 Chapter 5 An Exchange of Uniforms
57:00 Chapter 6 The Language of the Trench
1:05:55 Chapter 7 Whispers of the Myasnik
1:14:53 Chapter 8 The Price of a Name
1:23:29 Chapter 9 The Final Case File
1:32:19 Chapter 10 The Stalk
1:39:40 Chapter 11 The Ledger Is Closed
1:48:11 Chapter 12 A Reckoning in the Rain
1:55:39 Author’s Note on War Crimes
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