Memento Mori
Rain-dark Cork psychological crime where love, guilt, and evidence turn on each other.
A completed adult queer psychological crime trilogy set around Cork and Dublin, with procedural pressure, explicit intimacy, trauma, obsession, and a long shadow cast by one death.
At a glance
- Setting: Contemporary Cork and Dublin
- Style: Adult psychological crime with a procedural spine
- Tone: Rain-dark, tense, intimate, morally thorny
- Content: Explicit sex, strong language, crime/peril, and psychological intensity
- Best starting point: *The Boy with the Crow*
- Series status: Complete trilogy
Reading Order
Behind the Series
This is the dark shelf. Memento Mori should not be sold as cozy mystery or light romance: the trilogy is adult, explicit, psychologically intense, and concerned with consequences. Each book has a case, but the series engine is the way one death keeps changing shape as new evidence, new loyalties, and new moral failures come to light.FAQ
Do I need to read Memento Mori in order?
Recommended. Each book has its own central case, but the emotional consequences build across the trilogy.
Is this a romance series?
No. Desire and intimacy matter, but the engine is crime, consequence, obsession, and moral pressure.
Is it supernatural?
No. The trilogy uses haunting, skull, ghost, and death imagery, but the core promise is psychological crime.
How dark is it?
Darker than the Treggan Bay books: adult, explicit, and emotionally intense, with trauma, coercion, violence, and moral ambiguity.
Is the trilogy complete?
Yes. The three-book arc begins with The Boy with the Crow and concludes with The Boy the Wolves Took.