Cold light, colder motives. A recurring investigator works the fjord towns where everyone knows everyone — and that's exactly the problem. Every book: a fresh body, a secret the town has been keeping warm for years, and a killer who's been sitting across the dinner table the whole time. The dark lasts months up here, and silence gets mistaken for peace. Readers don't finish this series — they wait out the winter with it, one long night at a time.
Book 1 Signed Clean
Literary Fiction · 64,669 words
In Verrin, a small county seat, the courthouse keeps two records of every life it has held: the certified transcript in the basement, and what the town repeats around the square. For thirty-one years Marian Reeve took down testimony word for word and trusted the two to agree — until a case she sealed long ago comes back to prove a record can be flawless and still be a lie. Hearsay is a quiet, literary crime series about a retired court reporter who works the cases the evidence can't reach: the deathbed line, the recanted confession, the threat heard through a wall. Each book turns on a single thing no court would admit — and on the distance between what was said and what was meant.
High in the folds of the Pindos mountains, the old villages are dying, and with them the songs and namings no one ever wrote down. A folklorist climbs to them with a tape recorder and open arms, certain he is bringing mercy. He is mistaken. The Karelis Letters is Greek folk horror told in the first person — a slow, mounting dread in which the listener becomes the listened-to, and what a man came to collect begins, quietly, to collect him.