The forger

Elias is a master forger, a ghost hiding in a damp London basement, erasing identities for the desperate. But when an elegant, terrifying woman in a charcoal coat offers him a fortune to forge the lost diary of a tragic 1920s poet named Alistair Vance, Elias steps into a psychological trap. As he writes the poet's descent into madness, he discovers his mysterious client is staging real-world murders to perfectly match his prose. Worse, Alistair Vance never existed—he is a fabrication based entirely on Elias's face. Realizing he is scripting his own murder to provide the poet's corpse, Elias must weaponize his ink and turn the ultimate forgery into a brilliant, deadly confession.