Case status — closed. Evidence remains open to interpretation.
Some evidence doesn't disappear.
It waits for someone who knows how to read it.
The VOSS series — literary crime fiction by Daniel Laz. Forensic consultant Frankie Voss follows what institutions would rather leave buried, across five cities and twenty years of unfinished history.
The Investigator
Frankie Voss doesn't close cases. She keeps them open until the truth gets tired of hiding.
- Full name
- Francesca "Frankie" Voss
- Profession
- Forensic consultant
- Method
- Documentation over instinct
- Status
- Outsider, by design
- Cities worked
- Budapest, Tokyo, Istanbul, New York, Saint Petersburg
She is the person institutions call when they need answers — and regret it when she finds them.
Across five investigations, Frankie Voss moves through cities that have spent decades curating their own official versions of events. She isn't interested in the official version. She's interested in what the documentation actually says, once someone finally reads it properly.
Each book stands alone. All five reward reading in order — the cases are separate, but Frankie isn't. What she carries from Budapest, she carries into Saint Petersburg.
The Case Files — Five Cities, Complete
Scene Documentation
Five standalone investigations. One recurring investigator. Read in order for the fullest picture of who Frankie Voss becomes — or start wherever a city calls to you.
Budapest
47.4979° N · 19.0402° E
A five-year-old fire, a father's city, and a file someone was hoping would never be reopened.
Tokyo
35.6762° N · 139.6503° E
In Tokyo, silence is not emptiness. It's the shape of everything that was carefully removed.
Istanbul
41.0082° N · 28.9784° E
Ottoman secrets and a heritage that someone is still, quietly, willing to kill for.
New York
40.7128° N · 74.0060° W
What happens when the city that never sleeps decides, deliberately, to look the other way.
Saint Petersburg
59.9311° N · 30.3609° E
The investigation closes here. The cities — and what they buried — are still there.
The Author
Daniel Laz
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