Novels
Book 2 - Ryan Neville: Fire through Glass
My name is Ryan Neville. I was fourteen years old when my mentor asked me from beyond the grave to wrap up his last case. *** ‘I had been used in every move of the game. Been barely a piece to begin with, maybe a pawn at best. One of those little guys can still deliver checkmate, though. The board was set up, and Dylan moved first. It came not as an instant stroke of genius: far from it. But every once in a while you fit together something that’s been brewing in your head for days, recognizing each fragment’s place. As if you’ve finally pulled yourself up to the summit of a mountain, and found a path through the forest below. My fingers closed around the white king, then tipped it over.'
Book 1 - Ryan Neville: Smoke and Mirrors
“How often have I said to you, that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” – Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet. My name is Ryan Neville. This is the story of how I went on vacation and ended up trying to unravel a mystery behind a major catastrophe. A fire erupted out of nowhere in the hotel my family and I were staying in, killing dozens and threatening the lives of the people I care about most. A truly tragic accident… except I saw the arsonist in the flesh. What’s worse is that I think they’ve followed me here, into a megalomaniacal billionaire’s mansion, to a place and people I know all too well. Every bone in my body is itching for me to run away as fast as possible. But I made a promise, down in the smoking ruins of that hotel. There’s no going back now.
