ASHES OF THE NULL CHOIR (THE ANGLION CRIME BUREAU FILES Book 1)

In the shadowed city of Blackgate, truth is not discovered—it is buried.In the year 3211 AC, the Anglion Crime Bureau’s Special Branch handles cases no ordinary investigator will touch: ritual murders, impossible phenomena, and the quiet horrors that slip between science and belief. When a series of brutal, ritualistic killings begins to surface across the lower districts, two of the Bureau’s most dangerous assets are assigned to the case.Detective-Inspector Elias Veylock is precise, analytical, and something far more than human. His mind reconstructs crime scenes with unnatural clarity—but pieces of his own past are missing, cut away for reasons buried deeper than any case.Detective-Sergeant Kael Draven is his opposite. Direct. Relentless. A man who does not theorise evil—he hunts it.Together, they follow a trail of blood into a conspiracy that reaches far beyond a single killer. Beneath Blackgate lies something ancient: a hidden system built to remember everything the city chose to forget. And now, something is trying to wake it.As bodies mount and reality begins to fracture, Elias and Kael are forced into a descent where logic fails, memory becomes weaponised, and the dead refuse to remain silent. What they uncover is not just a killer—but a truth powerful enough to rewrite the balance between the living and the buried.To stop it, they will have to confront what was sealed long ago… and decide whether some things should ever be uncovered at all.Because in Blackgate, the greatest horror is not what hunts in the dark—it is what the city has hidden beneath itself. Read more