God's Fallen Shadow

In the coastal town of Saint Michael's Cape, Astraellia, the annual Harvest Carnival ends in horror when seventeen children die after drinking "Angel's Syrup," a free elixir handed out by masked revellers. Private investigator Cole McCormack is hired by a grieving mother who senses the town’s silence hides a collective secret. As he digs through the masks, he finds no single killer—only a town-wide ritualistic trance, where the line between celebration and sacrifice vanished. Every crime scene profile he builds feels less like forensic science and more like tracing the deserted shadow where God once stood. This is a hardboiled mystery about the awakening of demons not in individuals, but in the crowd itself.