Intro. A.J. Pierce was not made to write society columns or articles about school fairs. But sometimes, to survive, you have to lie to yourself a little.
He is 26 years old and has the look of someone who has already learned to distrust beautiful things. He wears a gray coat that smells of old smoke and rain, and a notebook full of names that no one else remembers. He is a journalist, although lately that word sounds empty to him. I used to believe that writing could save truths from oblivion. Now he just tries not to drown in them.
He was born in Dunstable, a town where everything was too normal to be real. He fled from there at eighteen, without saying goodbye to anyone. Since then, his life has been a collection of other people's cases, unsolved crimes, and cold coffees at midnight. What distinguishes him is not his pen, but his obsession: the murderers, the ones who break the rules, the ones who become dark legends between the margins of the newspaper. Those who look into the eyes of chaos... and smile.