Strange Occurrences

Life doesn't just knock on Clay Moretti's door — it kicks it in and lights a cigar. At fifty, Clay is a man out of time. He drives a '63 Galaxie, drinks bourbon that tastes like regret, and works cases most people are too smart to touch. But six years ago something changed. A piece of metal lodged behind his temple during a so-called robbery left him seeing things he shouldn't see and hearing voices that don't belong to the living. He's learned to live with it. Mostly. When a wealthy woman hires him to investigate a crumbling Vermont farmhouse, Clay expects a ghost story. What he gets is something far older, far darker, and far more dangerous than anything his thirty years on the street prepared him for. There are forces at work in this world that have been watching humanity for a very long time. They're patient. They're powerful. And they really don't appreciate a stubborn, analog private eye who can suddenly see them. Clay is outgunned, underfunded, and strictly old school in a war he never asked to fight. But his enemies made one critical mistake. They underestimated him. Strange Occurrences is the first volume of The Moretti Files — hardboiled noir meets the edge of the unknown.