Writing
One novel so far. It is about a city that solved death and a police force that cannot solve seven murders in a month.
The 12:32 Murders
In the year 2050, the city never sleeps, and its people are promised they will never have to die. Humanoids walk the streets like neighbours. Miracles are sold by the vial. And somewhere inside the shininess of it all, someone is killing.
Seven bodies in a month. No fingerprints, no witnesses, and one detail nobody can explain: every victim's heart stops at exactly thirty-two minutes past midnight. When the killer comes for Vikram Roy's wife, the suspended inspector is left with a daughter who will not sleep without the lights on and a truth nobody wants him to find.
298 pages · Notion Press · ISBN 9798906062444
Why I wrote it
It started as a film. In 2024 I was working out the plot and the characters, planning to shoot it as a feature.
That was already past what I could execute. My film work is short films, and a feature was well beyond the scale I had any business attempting. Then the story kept growing, and by the time it had a shape, a feature could not have held it either.
So I wrote it down instead. A novel was never the plan. It is what the story turned into once I stopped trying to fit it inside a runtime.
What kept me on it were the questions underneath. What happens to justice when a machine is better at it than we are, and what is left of being human once a city can sell you another sixty to seventy years. I read mysteries and thrillers, and I study computer science, so this is roughly where those meet. The same pull shows up in what I build: a novel about what a city does to justice is not far from asking what a language model is doing behind its own output.