On a rain-slick Halloween night in Cork, a university photo walk turns vicious: veiled frames ignite in a flash of unnatural white fire, and the crowd is left staring at a nude image of the club’s star organiser—paired with a moralising threat from an anonymous account calling itself The Judgement.
Detective Bria Friday arrives to a house that’s suddenly become a sealed box: a shared student home where everyone loved Tara Linskey, needed her, envied her—or feared what she knew. Her adoptive sister Shannon, boyfriend Declan, closest friend Finn, and ex-housemate Riku all have reasons to lie—and all had proximity to her laptop, her passwords, and the private photos now weaponised.
With a missing phone, a stolen key, and digital breadcrumbs that lead nowhere clean, Bria has to decide whether she’s looking at self-destruction—or a staged ending. And with uneasy witness Mason Maloney already haunted by a previous case Cork won’t let him forget, one mistake could mean choosing the wrong villain and letting the real one walk away smiling.
Perfect for readers who enjoy Irish crime fiction, campus noir, psychological suspense, digital forensics, intimate suspect circles, slow-burn mysteries, dark humour.
Genre: Mystery
Detective Bria Friday arrives to a house that’s suddenly become a sealed box: a shared student home where everyone loved Tara Linskey, needed her, envied her—or feared what she knew. Her adoptive sister Shannon, boyfriend Declan, closest friend Finn, and ex-housemate Riku all have reasons to lie—and all had proximity to her laptop, her passwords, and the private photos now weaponised.
With a missing phone, a stolen key, and digital breadcrumbs that lead nowhere clean, Bria has to decide whether she’s looking at self-destruction—or a staged ending. And with uneasy witness Mason Maloney already haunted by a previous case Cork won’t let him forget, one mistake could mean choosing the wrong villain and letting the real one walk away smiling.
Perfect for readers who enjoy Irish crime fiction, campus noir, psychological suspense, digital forensics, intimate suspect circles, slow-burn mysteries, dark humour.
Genre: Mystery