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Robert A. Clark

The Books

14 novels. 7 series. All available on Amazon.

Cold Ground

Belfast / Northern Ireland

A new crime series about the weight of memory, the cost of silence, and the people who know exactly where the bodies are buried.

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Cold Ground Book 1

The Hanging Ground

A body staged as an execution. A retired detective. Thirty years of buried secrets.

A body hangs from Belfast's Lagan Bridge, meticulously staged to resemble an execution buried deep in Northern Ireland's darkest history. Retired detective Eamon Fallon has spent thirty years burying the past — but when an anonymous message arrives, his carefully built life begins to unravel.

Docklands Noir

Dublin

A Dublin noir series about missing people, erased records, and the secrets that survive in the shadows.

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Docklands Noir Book 1

The Vanishing Rider

A delivery rider vanishes. Then someone begins erasing the evidence he ever existed.

When twenty-three-year-old Andrei Ionescu disappears after a late-night delivery in Dublin's Docklands, his aunt turns to private investigator Eamon "Mack" McAuley. His accounts have been deleted, his final message contains a mysterious photograph — and a warning to keep it safe.

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Docklands Noir Book 2

The Woman in Apartment 9B

She saw something she was never meant to see. By morning, someone had begun erasing her existence.

Cleaner Olena Shevchenko knows Apartment 9B is different. Nobody appears to live there. One bedroom locks from the outside. Then one morning she finds blood on the floor — and hours later, Olena is missing.

The Atlanta Noir Novels

Atlanta, Georgia

An Atlanta noir series about art, legacy, and the debts that refuse to stay buried.

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Atlanta Noir Book 1

A Murder of Crows

Somebody posed him. Somebody composed him. Somebody wanted him seen.

When Harrison Whitfield III is found dead in Piedmont Park — his body arranged with unsettling precision beneath a scatter of crows — Sergeant Nolan Anderson knows immediately this isn't a random killing. Somebody wanted him seen.

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Atlanta Noir Book 2

The Devil's Choir

Some confessions are made to be heard.

When Pastor Elias Judson is found drowned in his own baptismal font — the water replaced by communion wine, a verse carved into his chest — Nolan Anderson knows this isn't a murder. This is a sermon.

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Atlanta Noir Book 3

The Habit

Some habits are buried with the dead. Some outlive them.

When retired officer Harlan Vance is found dead on an unopened stretch of the BeltLine — a fifty-year-old form tucked under his arm marked RECLASSIFIED, CLOSED — Anderson and Mitchell uncover a two-decade administrative habit that quietly buried nearly two hundred cases.

The Glasgow Deepfake Series

Belfast / Glasgow

A Belfast crime series for an age of AI manipulation, crypto blackmail, and murder made for an audience.

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Glasgow Deepfake Series Book 1

The Deepfake Widow

A viral deepfake. A drowned actress. An underground streaming network where murder is entertainment.

A shockingly viral deepfake video. Hours later, the woman at its centre is found drowned in the Clyde. DI "Midge" Rutherford is an old-school detective dragged into a nightmare of AI manipulation, crypto blackmail, and a streaming network where subscribers vote on the ending.

The Larkin Files

Belfast

A Belfast techno-thriller series about artificial intelligence, political deception, and the fragile boundary between truth and fiction.

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The Larkin Files Book 1

The Seam

There are lies. Then there are the lies that rewrite history.

When a respected Belfast politician appears in a viral video delivering a shocking confession, investigative journalist Eithne Larkin's instincts tell her something is wrong. The evidence looks flawless. Every frame, every movement, every heartbeat is real. Except it never happened.

The Lomax Files

Glasgow

A Glasgow crime series about institutional failure, public anger, and the dangerous arithmetic of justice deferred.

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The Lomax Files Book 1

Just Stop Killing

What do you do when the whole country is quietly cheering for the murderer?

A government minister is found naked and nailed to a motorway gantry above the M8. He's the man who sold Scotland its smart motorways. He won't be the last to die for them. DCI Terry Lomax has seen a lot. He's never seen a killer this patient.

Standalone Novels

Various

Seven standalone thrillers — each one a different world, the same uncompromising voice.

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The Ministry of Inconvenient Deaths Book 1

A Minor Statistical Adjustment

Some deaths are inconvenient. Some are adjusted.

When Dr. Helen Mercer dies of an apparent overdose, the local force closes the file within forty-eight hours. But Mercer had spent eight months documenting a pattern of patient reclassification that no one in the system wanted to acknowledge.

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The Rwanda Roster

Somebody has to count them all.

When Detective Inspector Iona Khatri pulls a body from the dock at King George V, she expects tragedy. What she finds instead is something systemic — a spreadsheet that can disappear a person more completely than any crime.

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Eight Seconds

The alarm lasted eight seconds. Not long enough to react. Just long enough to know something was wrong.

In a federally contracted lab in north Georgia, a containment seal fails. The men in charge choose silence. At a CDC hollowed out by budget cuts, Deputy Director Nora Phillips sees the cluster light up her screen — and her superiors want her to wait until next week.

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Proof of Death

The killer isn't hiding. The killer is publishing.

Deputy Cletus Jinks finds Luther Pugh dead on his own embalming table — a live-linked Bitcoin wallet tattooed in precise QR code across his tongue. Below the funeral home, seven unclaimed bodies have been running as a heat exchange loop for a cryptocurrency mining operation.

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Standalone

The Caracas Asset

She sent the intelligence that lit the fuse. Now she has to live with what burned.

CIA operative Elena Vásquez delivers the intelligence that makes Operation Absolute Resolve possible. But the night the bombs fall over Caracas, she discovers the mission was built on a lie she told herself — and the asset she promised to protect is still inside.

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Storm of Silence

Some silences are chosen. Some are enforced.

When a remote weather station goes dark during a Category 4 hurricane, the official explanation is equipment failure. But the last transmission — a single encrypted file sent to a journalist in Atlanta — suggests the silence was deliberate, and the storm was the cover.

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