The Orphica Dossier

In the tradition of Javier Cercas, this investigative novel blurs the line between fact and fiction to expose a crime hidden in plain sight. David Ros, a disenchanted writer in Northville, USA, stumbles upon a cluster of inexplicable deaths at a nursing home. What begins as a local obituary project unravels into a labyrinth of falsified data, corporate impunity, and an experimental drug that turns elderly bodies into disposable test subjects. As Ros digs deeper, he realizes the perpetrators are not traditional criminals but architects of a new kind of evil—one that weaponizes algorithmic opacity and legal forethought against a regulatory system trapped in the last century. The novel is a chilling meditation on how the most untouchable felonies are committed not by breaking the law, but by out-evolving it.