NEW INVESTIGATIVE CRIME THRILLER
A Nerja crime thriller
NOTHING BAD HAPPENS HERE
Some places don't hide their secrets. They bury them.
In Nerja, the whitewashed streets glow like bone under the lamplight and the tourists never look twice. Then a body surfaces beneath the Balcón de Europa, and forensic investigator Dr Alex Marquez finds a wound pattern he last saw on a case that was officially closed nine years ago. Detective Carmen Reyes has three days before the season starts and a town that would rather the sea kept its secrets.
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The people in the frame
Person of interest — historic case
Dr Alex Marquez
Forensic pathologist (retired, unofficially)
Twenty-two years in the Madrid forensic service, then a resignation nobody was allowed to write down. He came to Nerja for the quiet and found the same wound pattern waiting for him on a beach at four in the morning.
Lead investigator
Detective Carmen Reyes
Policía Nacional, Homicide — Málaga province
Born in Nerja, transferred back after twelve years away, which means every witness she interviews once taught her, served her, or married her cousin. She is good at the job precisely because it costs her something.
Cooperating — nominally
Tomás Oliva
Mayor of Nerja
Four terms, three marinas, one motto. He is not a cruel man; he is a man who has decided in advance which truths the season can afford.
Book two · Now live
Cold Ground
A Carmen Reyes Investigation
Eighteen months after Nerja, a grave opens on a hillside above Frigiliana. All 15 chapters are live and reading now — Chapter One is free for everyone, and full access unlocks the rest instantly.
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Balcón
A Carmen Reyes Thriller
High summer in Nerja: forty thousand people in a town built for eight, a season of workers nobody has registered, and a woman who doesn't come home. All 18 chapters are live — Chapter One is free, and full access unlocks the rest instantly.
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The Nerja Caves
A Carmen Reyes Investigation
Twelve hectares of citrus terraces above Maro, a compulsory purchase three weeks from completion, and a man dead of a heart attack he was never going to have. All 27 chapters are live — Chapter One is free, and full access unlocks the rest instantly.
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Bloodline
A Carmen Reyes Investigation
A child laid out in a dry riverbed at first light, ringed by stones in a circle deliberately left open to the sea. Carmen knows at once this is not a beginning — and the thread runs back four generations, into her own family.
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