The Names That We Keep
A contemporary investigative suspense novel with a dark speculative edge.
Carys Matthias knows the difference between a patient, a prescription and a person. When an apparently ordinary cremation service leaves behind questions no one wants asked, she is drawn into the orbit of investigator Laurence Morrow and a corporate system whose language of care conceals something colder.
Set in and around Swansea, the novel explores grief, identity, complicity and the cost of insisting that every life deserves to be remembered in full.
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Hafn Lane
Book One of The Cities of Salt and Rain.
Housing officer Siân Picton is used to disputed records, failing properties and the quiet violence of bureaucracy. Then she encounters an address that appears to exist in two versions of Swansea at once.
Across the boundary lies a city of red trams, oath-halls, active copperworks and records that do more than describe reality. To protect an elderly tenant caught between both places, Siân must learn what each city erased — and why both still claim the same ground.
Laurence Morrow
Further investigations into systems, language and the human cost of institutional certainty.
Following The Names That We Keep, Laurence Morrow’s future cases will move beyond one company and one conspiracy while retaining the moral unease, dry intelligence and character-led tension at the centre of the first novel.
Working future titles include Service Interruption and The Translation Error.