The God Complex

The Elias Vale series follows a private investigator in a city where truth is mandatory, lies are impossible, and reality itself has learned how to cheat.

Stockholm is a polished noir metropolis of rain-slick streets, glowing towers, buried records, vanished people, and civic secrets too large to stay dead. In this city, nobody can lie outright. They can only omit, redirect, disguise, and bury the truth until the shape of it becomes unrecognizable.

Elias Vale makes his living finding the pieces that refuse to stay hidden.

Each case begins like a classic mystery: a missing person, a strange photograph, a dead man, a weapon, a name nobody wants spoken. But every thread leads deeper into Stockholm’s machinery, where memory can be edited, identities can be rewritten, and the powerful treat human lives like paperwork waiting to be corrected.

Blending hard-boiled detective fiction, cosmic horror, psychological mystery, and dark urban noir, the Elias Vale series follows Vale and those drawn into his orbit as they uncover the forces feeding beneath the city’s perfect surface.

For readers who like their mysteries smoky, strange, sharp-edged, and crawling with impossible things in expensive suits.