Investigating Technology, Truth and Missing Records
People talk about certainty as though it were something most of us possess. I have never found that to be true. Life asks for decisions long before it provides answers.
Records disappear. Memories change. Witnesses disagree. None of that makes the truth unimportant. People deserve honesty. The dead deserve to be remembered properly. Lies have a habit of surviving longer than they should.
Much of my work begins with questions nobody can answer cleanly. A voice with no obvious source. A record that should exist but does not. A decision that changed a life, leaving little trace of how it was made. The details vary, but the problem is often the same: understanding what happened after certainty has already disappeared.
I have learned that truth does not heal everything. Facts matter. Life continues after explanations have finished. What carries the weight when certainty runs out is often something simpler: friendship, loyalty, kindness, and the people who choose to stay.
My name is Aris Thorne. I investigate what technology does to the truth. Lately the past seems to have taken an interest in me. I'm not entirely sure why and I'm not convinced I will like the answer. Even so, I intend to find it.
Archives of Ash
When a teenager is accused of murder on the strength of a recorded confession, independent investigator Aris Thorne is asked to examine the evidence.
What begins as a straightforward enquiry soon leads into a world of forgotten records, buried histories and voices that refuse to stay silent. As the investigation deepens, Aris finds himself confronting questions that reach far beyond a single case and into secrets that have survived for generations.
Archives of Ash is a mystery about memory, truth and the traces people leave behind. It is the first novel in the Aris Thorne series, but can be read as a standalone story.
Inherited Voices
A widow knows the machine is wrong. When a system designed to offer comfort after bereavement begins speaking about her late husband in ways she knows he never would, she turns to Aris Thorne for answers.
The investigation leads into the growing gap between memory and technology, raising difficult questions about what people leave behind and who has the right to use it. Along the way, Aris discovers that some of the most important truths cannot be found in records at all.
Inherited Voices is the second Aris Thorne novel. Release date September 2026.
Happy People
A decision was made. Nobody can explain it.
When an automated system leaves a vulnerable woman fighting to reclaim her life, Aris Thorne is asked to discover what happened. The problem is that the system no longer exists.
As he follows the trail, Aris encounters people whose lives have been harmed by technology and others whose lives have been transformed by it. The investigation forces him to confront a question he has spent years avoiding: how much certainty does a person really need?
Happy People is the third Aris Thorne novel. Release date December 2026.