Series · Seven Volumes · Prestige Historical Crime
Shadows Universe
A grounded prestige crime franchise following FBI Agent Carter across America and the world, inspired by real historical crimes, war, corruption, organized crime, trafficking, and intelligence operations. The killers are not the stars. The communities are.
Shadow of the Interstate
"Some monsters traveled America by highway."
Set in the 1980s and inspired by real interstate crimes across America. Carter investigates murders, child abductions, racial terror, trafficking routes, media panic, and broken communities across the Midwest. The highways become arteries of fear while families, police, journalists, and neighborhoods struggle to survive violence moving faster than law enforcement can respond.
In the spirit of: True Detective · Zodiac · Mindhunter · The Wire
Shadows of Mogadishu
"The world remembers the helicopters. Somalia remembers everything else."
Mogadishu, 1989, 1994. Carter's missing persons investigation uncovers black market food operations, militia trafficking, CIA ghost operations, child recruitment, famine economics, warlord politics, and Somali civilian trauma around the years of Black Hawk Down. This is not another American military story, it is the story of the civilians the world left behind.
In the spirit of: Black Hawk Down · Hotel Rwanda · City of God · Zero Dark Thirty
December 2026Shadows of London
"Some cities hide corruption behind elegance."
A murdered journalist, a missing immigrant woman, and a mutilated intelligence asset pull Carter beneath London's polished surface. Reuniting with his estranged half-brother, a brilliant Scotland Yard detective, Carter uncovers trafficking networks, political blackmail, elite corruption, surveillance abuse, and powerful families protected by wealth and secrecy.
In the spirit of: Seven · Luther · True Detective · Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
December 2026Shadows of Belfast
"Some wars never truly end."
A retired journalist's murder exposes encrypted files tied to The Troubles, missing civilians, secret executions, paramilitary informants, intelligence coverups, and families still carrying grief beneath Belfast's fragile peace. Carter partners with Detective Aoife Gallagher as memory itself becomes dangerous and old ghosts refuse to stay buried.
In the spirit of: The Wire · In the Name of the Father · Line of Duty · Patriot Games
December 2026Shadows of the Border
"Entire economies survive on people disappearing."
Bodies in the Sonoran Desert expose cartel smuggling, corrupt law enforcement, missing migrant networks, child trafficking, private detention profiteering, and a border economy where desperation becomes currency. Carter uncovers a system where disappearance itself has become a business model for criminals, officials, and corporations alike.
In the spirit of: Sicario · Narcos · Traffic · No Country for Old Men
December 2026Shadows of the Bayou
"The swamp remembers what the town buried."
Women disappear across isolated Louisiana parishes while Carter and Detective Simone Baptiste uncover trafficking corridors, ritual violence, political corruption, river smuggling, hurricane trauma, and generations of silence beneath Southern beauty. In the bayou, fear spreads quietly, like water rising.
In the spirit of: True Detective Season One · Sharp Objects · Prisoners · Southern Gothic
December 2026Shadows of Berlin
"The Cold War ended. The ghosts never did."
A retired East German intelligence translator is murdered, revealing hidden Cold War archives involving CIA and KGB operations, surveillance systems, political assassinations, human experimentation, sleeper assets, black prisons, and secrets powerful enough to destabilize modern governments. Carter descends beneath Berlin into tunnels where history never truly ended.
In the spirit of: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy · Bridge of Spies · The Lives of Others · The Americans
December 2026