Dr. Ethan Vale
Environmental forensics
Methodical and skeptical. He follows the evidence, even when the obvious explanation would be easier.
Environmental crime thriller · Eight-book series EN · IT
The Environmental
Crimes Files
Every disaster leaves evidence.
A contamination that makes no sense. A disaster with the wrong explanation. A trail of evidence that someone wants buried.
01 / The premise
What if it wasn't natural?
When an environmental emergency appears to have a straightforward cause, the evidence sometimes tells another story. A measurement doesn't fit. A witness contradicts the timeline. The official account starts to fall apart.
In The Environmental Crimes Files, former federal environmental-forensics specialist Dr. Ethan Vale and his private investigative team follow these anomalies into crimes shaped by money, pressure and carefully concealed decisions.
This is a crime and conspiracy thriller series first: every case begins with a human threat, an investigation and a question that demands an answer.
Anatomy of an investigation
The facts never fit neatly.
Every case begins with something that can be explained away: a warning, a damaged system, a pattern that should not be there. But evidence has its own chronology.
Samples, site records, observations and conflicting accounts offer competing explanations. Ethan Vale’s team must work out which interpretation survives scrutiny—and who benefits from the one everyone has accepted.
A thriller about what can be proven, not just what can be suspected.
02 / Meet the investigators
Four minds. Different instincts.
A small private team with complementary expertise—not unlimited authority, and never unlimited certainty.
Maya Ortiz
Environmental science
Water, soil and contamination specialist. She knows that waiting for certainty can carry a cost.
Marcus Reed
Criminal investigation
A former federal investigator who reads people, motives and the institutions around a case.
Lena Park
Geospatial and data analysis
Satellite imagery, patterns and records reveal what a single observation can miss.
03 / The series
Eight cases.
One larger mystery.
Eight investigations built around distinct threats, evidence and stakes. Each novel is designed to deliver a complete case while a wider mystery develops across the series.
Follow the investigation, challenge the explanation and discover what the evidence reveals. No future book titles, release schedules or case solutions are disclosed here.
THRILLER · MYSTERY · ENVIRONMENTAL FORENSICS
Inside the cases
Eight investigations. Different terrain. One question.
The threat changes with each investigation. The discipline stays the same: look at what happened, test what can be explained, and follow the human decisions behind the evidence.
The anomaly
A detail breaks the official explanation.
The evidence
Data, fieldwork and testimony tell competing stories.
The human cost
People and communities live with the consequences.
The reckoning
Each investigation pursues its own answer.
04 / Free companion materials
Step inside the Evidence Archive.
Read a standalone investigative mystery, use a printable fieldbook to examine clues, and explore a collection of atmospheric wallpapers. Materials are free, available in English and Italian where applicable, and contain no spoilers for the novels.
Explore the Evidence Archive