The Spectral Detective

Blinded during a covert wartime mission, Captain Arthur R. King returns from the shadows of the Second World War with more than scars. Where others see darkness, King sees echoes: ghosts of violence, fragments of memory, and impossible clues hidden in the unseen world.

Working in the uneasy aftermath of 1945, King becomes an investigator of cases no ordinary detective can solve. With former allies, buried secrets, and enemies thought lost to history closing in around him, he must navigate a world where espionage, murder, ancient relics, and the supernatural collide.

The Spectral Detective Series blends historical mystery, noir atmosphere, wartime intrigue, and uncanny horror in the story of a wounded soldier who discovers that losing his sight has opened another kind of vision.

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Into Darkness

The Prequel to the Spectral Detective Series.

Book #0 from the series: The Spectral Detective

April 1945.

As the Third Reich crumbles, a covert Allied team is sent deep into the Thuringian mountains on a mission that doesn’t officially exist. Their orders: infiltrate a medieval castle seized by the SS and recover a relic hidden within its ancient vaults — an artefact whispered to defy reason.

Captain Arthur King, a soldier turned...

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King in the Dark: Part One — Duty Calls

First part of Book One of the Spectral Detective Series

Book #1 from the series: The Spectral Detective

At the end of the Second World War, Captain Arthur King leads a covert strike deep inside Nazi territory—a mission that unravels in ways no training could prepare him for. Injured and evacuated to England, King wakes in a military hospital with his sight gone… yet something else stirring behind the darkness.

As doctors search for answers, King...

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King in the Dark: Part Two — Swan's Song

Second Part of Book One of the Spectral Detective Series

Book #1 from the series: The Spectral Detective

King in the Dark Part 2: Swan’s Song

Washington, D.C., summer 1945. The war in Europe is won, but for Captain Arthur Raphael King, the real battle has only just begun.

Blinded by an explosion in a Thuringian castle, King now sees what others cannot — spectral auras, echoes of the past, and the slow uncoiling of secrets buried beneath the capital’s...

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