From locked-room glamour with Detective Evelyn Shaw to the geopolitical shadows investigated by Orion, Quin Ashford's fiction follows the moment control gives way.
Book One available now · Book Two in development
A suspense series following Detective Evelyn Shaw through polished rooms, hidden corridors, and crimes designed to send a message long before the truth is visible.
Available nowThe night was perfect. Until the champagne was served.
When heiress Clara Van Dorn collapses at New York's elite Silver Veil Gala, Detective Evelyn Shaw has minutes to solve a poisoning before a sealed room full of suspects turns lethal.
Evelyn Shaw has always trusted what she can prove. Book Two asks what happens when proof itself can be manufactured.
Book One available now · Book Two in early plotting
Former U.S. Navy SEAL Derek Ryan leads an elite private intelligence firm into the cases governments abandon—where the most dangerous systems are built by people convinced they are protecting the world.
Available nowSome systems survive by deciding who gets erased.
A storm-battered North Sea platform. A silent network built on four decades of disappearances. Orion field director Derek Ryan follows the trail into the one loss he has never been able to explain.
Taking down one system doesn't dismantle the ones built to replace it.
A new thriller in development
Novels outside the two continuing series — the same fascination with the truths people work hardest to keep buried.
Everyone in this group has a reason to lie. Only one of them has killed to keep it that way.
