Dark city mysteries

Evelyn Shaw

In polished rooms, the smallest fracture tells the truth.

Begin with The Glass Veil Follow the series

Inside the world

Detective Evelyn Shaw enters crimes designed as performances: immaculate settings, powerful witnesses, and messages planted before anyone realizes there is a pattern. Her advantage is not certainty. It is noticing what everyone else has agreed to overlook.

Locked environmentsPsychological pressureDark glamourPattern and perception

Books in the series

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Evelyn Shaw · Book One

The Glass Veil

The 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.

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Book TwoIn development

What happens when the evidence is lying too.

Evelyn Shaw has always trusted what she can prove. Book Two asks what happens when proof itself can be manufactured.

Title not yet announced

Series dossier

First case: The Glass Veil
The investigator: Evelyn Shaw
The world: Museums, private rooms, hidden corridors
The question: What was the crime designed to make you see?

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