The Vale & Ward Files

Detective Cassandra Vale never forgets. With hyperthymesia—perfect autobiographical memory—she recalls every detail of every case she’s worked in her twenty-two-year career. Every victim. Every failure. Every case that went cold.

When a woman is found murdered in an abandoned opera house, staged to match a 1999 serial killer’s signature, Cass...

She killed the Echo Man. But the real monster was the system that built him.
Detective Cassandra Vale thought the nightmare was over. Isaac Grey—the Echo Man—is dead, and the case that nearly destroyed her is closed. But when a woman declared legally dead fifteen years ago stumbles barefoot and bleeding onto the steps of St. Nicholas Church,...

They wrote her mind. They engineered her bond. Now she’s coming for the author.

Detective Cassandra Vale has survived the Echo Man. She’s burned the Silent Room to the ground. But in the explosive finale of The Vale & Ward Files, Cass discovers the conspiracy didn’t end—it evolved. And the man who designed everything—her memories, her...

He spent his whole life betting that people forget. He never met the one woman who can’t.
District Attorney Adrian Mercer is found dead in his locked study — gun in his hand, a confession glowing on the screen — the night before he’s set to unseal the biggest corruption indictment in the city’s history.
The city wants a tragedy. The brass wants it...

The alibi was perfect. That’s how she knew the hour was a lie.
A forensic auditor is found strangled inside the Halvorsen vault — a sealed, camera-watched, climate-controlled records facility two floors below the street. The badge logs prove no one entered or left during the only hour she could have died. The one man with a reason to want her...