Title:
HOGAN: Anthem of Irony
Status:
Published novel
Synopsis:
Kentown, 1993. A stormy night suffocates the city. Raymond Calder, an upright customs officer, is found dead in his apartment. Everything points to suicide.
Robert Hogan, a veteran KPD inspector nearing the end of his career, is asked to examine the scene before the case is quietly closed. Accompanied by his young deputy, Duke, he quickly senses a discomfort he cannot yet name.
The scene is too clean. Too carefully arranged.
One detail disturbs him: the national anthem keeps playing on repeat, even after the gunshot.
Then a testimony cracks the official version.
Hogan refuses to accept appearances and launches an unofficial investigation, working against his own hierarchy. Time is limited. Each seemingly trivial clue resurfaces, connects, and begins to reveal something else.
This novel is a noir crime story in which truth does not erupt violently.
It seeps in, slowly, until every certainty becomes uncomfortable.
