An Autopsy of a Murder
Warning: This novel contains depictions of violence, psychological manipulation, abuse, and mentions of suicide. Reader discretion is advised.
In an alternate 1940s universe, the City of Varn is shaken by a gruesome murder. Royal marksman Lieutenant Orvain Thurell brutally kills Captain Vaelor Holton. The corpse is found stripped naked and bound. Orvain confesses to sitting in the same room with the dead body for days. He admits his guilt, but insists he has a story to tellâone he will only share with Captain Kealion Dareth.
He has a single condition before his execution: a 24-hour train ride from the West to Varn. Captain Dareth, tasked with the investigation, locks himself in the compartment with Orvain. As a storm gathers outside, a much deeper collapse begins within.
Set inside a cramped, suffocating train compartment, this interrogation morphs into an autopsyâslicing into the dark depths of love, faith, corruption, and the human soul. While the past is resurrected through Orvain's voice, Dareth finds himself trapped in the crossfire of his own internal reckoning. In trying to understand how morality can shatter and how a man can turn into a demon, the rot of not just a single murder, but an entire civilization is laid bare.
An Autopsy of a Murder is a dark journey into the dissolution of the human psyche, unfolding behind closed doors, accompanied by fogged glass and rusted rails.