Judas and the Ghost

On a rain-slick Halloween night in Cork, a university photo walk becomes a public trial. Veiled frames flare with an unnatural white burn, and the crowd is forced to watch as a nude image of the club’s star organiser appears—stamped with a sermon and a threat from an anonymous account calling itself The Judgement.

By morning, Tara Linskey is dead.

Detective Bria Friday walks into a shared student house that feels like a sealed room: four people grieving too hard, protecting themselves too fast, and a digital life already picked clean. Tara’s adoptive sister Shannon. Her boyfriend Declan. Her closest friend Finn. Ex-housemate Riku. Each of them had access, proximity, and a reason to reshape the truth—because whatever Tara knew, she kept it close.

The key witness outside the suspect circle should be Bria’s advantage. Instead, he’s the complication. Mason Maloney owns the house—and his panic, his gaps, and his guilt threaten to contaminate the investigation just as Bria needs him steady. As Bria follows a trail through sextortion, jealousy, and a spectacle engineered to punish, she faces a choice that cost her once before: decide too quickly who deserves blame—and let the real villain slip away, smiling.

Why you’ll love it: a slow-burn Cork-set mystery where digital harm becomes public judgement, and every decision carries weight.