For fans of hard-boiled noir and occult horror.

Caldwell, 1940s.

The bartender at Donovan's stops showing up for work.

Three people are found sitting upright in public places, eyes open, breathing normally, with nothing physically wrong with them. The doctors have no explanation. The police have no suspects.

Detective Warren Hasek has spent twenty years investigating the cases nobody wants-the ones that don't fit inside a police report. He knows what absence looks like. He knows when something has been taken.

Then a famous occult lecturer arrives in Caldwell.

Alastair Pelham claims to be a magician. Hasek assumes he's a fraud.

Unfortunately, the dead don't seem to agree.

As more victims are found emptied of something essential, the trail leads from a respected Masonic lodge to an abandoned construction site, an ancient ritual hidden beneath the city, and a power that dissolves the human soul and leaves the body behind.

To stop it, Hasek must confront a darkness older than Caldwell itself, and discover what price is really being paid.

Because some doors don't open by accident.

And some things are waiting on the other side.

The Green Lion is a standalone Warren Hasek Investigation. No prior reading required. Begin anywhere.