Emeline Dalton

In the sun-baked, quiet valley of San Roldano, people go to the clinic to get better. Or they go there to die. A sudden stroke, a quiet heart failure—the locals call it tragic, but some tragedies keep excellent time.

Lázaro Silva is a street musician who survives by reading the hidden rhythms of a crowd: the twitch of a liar, the tension before a fight. He came to San Roldano looking for a place to disappear. Instead, he finds a surgical rhythm of deception. Every "accidental" death plays to an unseen beat.

Beatriz Navarro is an investigator who trusts only paper and bone. She is tracking a wrongful conviction, a man rotting in a cell for a murder he didn't commit. Her trail of falsified ledgers and buried secrets leads straight to the clinic's immaculate front doors.

They are on a collision course. One reads the evidence, the other reads the room. To tear down a conspiracy that sells quiet deaths to the valley's elite, they will have to survive the very people who own the ground they walk on. San Roldano has been quiet for too long. It is about to get very loud.

Healer Jussi Vainikalt thought the Kuulasmaa Authentication House would be a quiet place to hide from the ghost of the patient he intentionally let die. But when the head appraiser is murdered in the estate's viewing room and a strange mechanical pulse activates, Jussi finds himself waking up on the same morning, the corpse warm again, the suspects resetting their lies. Trapped in a repeating window of time where every reset demands a physical and mental toll, he must use his medical expertise and empirical trial-and-error to unmask the killer and dismantle the machine driving the loop. With an insular cast of rival appraisers, master forgers, and ruthless patrons guarding their own secrets, Jussi has to solve a locked-room murder where the ticking clock isn't counting down to the crime—it's counting down to the erasure of his own existence.