CASE RECORDS
THE CLARK ARCHIVE: PUBLISHED INVESTIGATIONS
Every novel is a postmortem on a system that filed the death as acceptable loss. These are the files.
UPDATED: 2026
TITLE: A Murder Of Crows
Genre: Art World Noir
Status: Published
SUMMARY: Billionaire Whitfield is found in Piedmont Park, staged as a painting. Detectives Nolan and Maeve hunt a killer targeting elites tied to Nazi looted art. Revenge becomes gallery art, and each masterpiece demands blood. Iusto, at.
CRITICAL RECEPTION: The International Review of Books calls it “stylish, atmospheric, and razor sharp.” A noir where revenge is curated and every canvas is evidence.
UPDATED: 2026
TITLE: Just Stop Killing
Genre: Infrastructure Thriller
Status: Published
SUMMARY: A minister is nailed to an M8 gantry, LANE CLOSED on his chest. DCI Lomax tracks murders that mirror smart motorway failures. The public cheers the killer who can freeze traffic and expose deadly policy. Iusto, at.
CRITICAL RECEPTION: A procedural that asks what happens when the public sides with the executioner. Justice failed first. Enforcement came second.
UPDATED: 2026
TITLE: THE CARACS ASSET
Genre: Moral Espionage
Status: Published
SUMMARY: CIA operative Elena Vásquez promised asset Héctor extraction from Caracas. When bombs fall and Langley says stand down, she defies orders. She races through fire to honor a debt.
CRITICAL RECEPTION: For readers of Silva and Matthews, but stripped of glamour. Tradecraft here means smoke, body counts, and promises that outlive the mission.
UPDATED: 2026
TITLE: Eight Seconds
Genre: Outbreak Procedural
Status: Published
SUMMARY: A lab alarm sounds for eight seconds. A virus escapes into Georgia workers. Deputy Director Nora Phillips sees the cluster. Authorization denied. She breaks protocol to stop a pathogen and the men burying truth.
CRITICAL RECEPTION: Ripped from tomorrow’s headlines. A thriller about institutional collapse where permission arrives after the funerals.
UPDATED: 2026
TITLE: The Rwanda Roster
Genre: Bureaucratic Horror
Status: Published
SUMMARY: DI Iona Khatri pulls a body from the dock. His name is gone. A spreadsheet remains with Iona’s name flagged for disposal. She descends into detention systems that kill by dropdown and logic tree.
CRITICAL RECEPTION: A novel about arithmetic as violence. Rooted in real enforcement practice, it argues that somebody has to count them all, no matter what version the system ships.
UPDATED: 2026
TITLE: Proof of Death
Genre: Mountain Gothic Procedural
Status: Published
SUMMARY: Deputy Cletus Jinks finds Luther Pugh on his embalming table with a Bitcoin wallet tattooed on his tongue. Below, unclaimed bodies run a crypto heat loop. The killer publishes on blockchain.
CRITICAL RECEPTION: Old ways of wrong meet new ways of caught. A crime novel where the murder weapon is thermodynamics and the confession is public.
UPDATED: 2026
TITLE: The Deepfake Widow
Genre: AI Age Thriller
Status: Published
SUMMARY: A royal deepfake goes viral. The actress is found drowned in the Clyde with a USB in her throat. DI Midge Rutherford hunts a killer streaming murder as subscription content with viewer votes.
CRITICAL RECEPTION: The International Review of Books calls it “darkly brilliant, wickedly funny, and terrifyingly plausible.” A crime thriller for the age when evidence is rendered.