The Mourning After

In the rain-drenched city of Verlin, a dead man watches the living canonize him. As a wrongful death lawsuit consumes the judiciary, the ghost of Elias Kovač discovers that the most exquisite revenge is not born from hatred, but from the smothering weight of public compassion. Every candle lit in his name tightens the noose around his killers, until the narrative breaks the fourth wall to reveal the true crime: the reader’s own empathy has become the murder weapon.