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title: "Memento Mori"
description: "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."
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# Memento Mori

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.
## Reading Order


- [The Boy with the Crow](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-boy-with-the-crow/) (Book 1) -- When Cassandra O'Neill is pulled from the River Lee, a guarded Cork coder with a skull above his monitor is dragged into police pressure, old guilt, explicit intimacy, and an obsession that will not stay buried.

- [Judas and the Ghost](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/judas-and-the-ghost/) (Book 2) -- When Tara Linskey's private image appears in public under a threat signed The Judgement, Detective Bria Friday follows a case built from shame, grief, access, coercion, and performance.

- [The Boy the Wolves Took](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-boy-the-wolves-took/) (Book 3) -- Cassandra O'Neill's murder is solved on paper until suspicious money, broken laptop wreckage, and hidden evidence in a painting reopen the case.



## 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*.




## Page Content

Memento Mori is a completed queer psychological crime trilogy about murder, evidence, obsession, and the dangerous places love can go when people mistake possession for care.

## 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.

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