James C. Cornwallis: The Bones Beneath

The city is changing. The bodies are staying.When a woman asks private investigator James Cornwallis to help identify bones found in the sewers, he expects a cold case closure. Instead, he stumbles into a calculated conspiracy where modern executions are hidden among decades-old remains, buried beneath redevelopment zones and protected by legal loopholes.As gang violence, political convenience, and urban "progress" collide, James and his small team are pushed into increasingly violent confrontations-booby-trapped tunnels, gunfire underground, and narrow escapes that leave scars both visible and not. James's reliance on cannabis to steady his mind begins to falter, exposing cracks in the methods that once kept him alive.With police willing to sanitize the truth and a self-appointed "protector" orchestrating murder in the name of order, James must balance instinct against restraint, obsession against justice.Relentless, suspenseful, and brutally grounded, The Bones Beneath is a modern noir thriller where survival depends not just on uncovering the truth-but on choosing what kind of man uncovers it.