The Still Man

Eleven deaths. No trauma. No cause of death. No pattern the investigation can name. Detective Sarah Hallow is building a case from absence. The victims were found at their tables - nothing disturbed, no defensive wounds, no mechanism the pathologist can identify. The investigation expands, the model refines, the institutional language grows more precise. The deaths continue. Paul Moran processes routing exceptions in a depot on the edge of East London.
He resolves discrepancies, logs the time, goes home. Every day is a variation of the previous one. The system is looking for something that does not look like anything. The Still Man is a psychological investigative thriller set in contemporary East London - the first Sarah Hallow investigation.