The next corridor

Munich, 1997. The trail begins with an IP address nobody thought mattered.

Ella Gremm closed the Voss case - filed, sentenced, done. But one printed access log keeps finding its way back to her desk: a hundred and fifty-three posts that weren't his. Other handles her own documentation marked outside the scope of the current investigation. A silence she can't file away.

She doesn't know it yet, but pulling that thread will take her and her steady, unflappable partner Harry out of their quiet forensics office in Schwabing and into multiple separate jurisdictions.

Fragments recovered from unallocated disk sectors. A building photographed many times, from different angles, on three separate trips. A shocking discovery behind a rusted iron fence that nobody was ever meant to notice.

The Next Corridor is a slow-burn, character-driven crime novel. It's also, unmistakably, a book about what people do with what they find - and what it costs to keep looking when everyone else has decided the case is closed.

The second novel in the Ella Gremm series, following The Last Door. For readers of patient, procedural crime fiction and post-Cold War European thrillers - where the tension comes from the work, not the body count, and the last page doesn't let you off easy.