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Ashfall Files: The Dead Girl in Sector Twelve: A Sci-Fi Noir Crime Investigation on a Dying Space Station
Ashfall Station hangs along the outer shipping lanes, overcrowded and exhausted, its systems stretched thin by rationing, surveillance, and quiet political pressure. Power flickers. Corridors hum through sleepless cycles. Every sector carries the weight of compromise.
When a young woman is found dead inside a maintenance vent in Sector Twelve, the case arrives with instructions already implied. Her identity has vanished from official records. Surveillance logs show convenient gaps. Witnesses hesitate, then fall silent.
Veteran detective Ruff Kale recognises the familiar shape of a death meant to disappear. Alongside his partner Lena Marik, he begins tracing the small inconsistencies that refuse to settle. Each question leads deeper into blocked access points, altered reports, and subtle warnings delivered through procedure and tone.
The investigation moves through the station’s underlayers and public spaces alike, revealing a structure that protects its own secrets while civilians absorb the consequences. Authority tightens its grip. Resources strain. Truth becomes a liability.
The Dead Girl in Sector Twelve opens the Ashfall Files series with a grounded, atmospheric noir investigation set inside a decaying orbital habitat. The story unfolds through pressure, observation, and consequence, establishing a slow-burn conspiracy that extends far beyond a single death.
Ashfall remembers what was buried.
Even when the system prefers silence.
When a young woman is found dead inside a maintenance vent in Sector Twelve, the case arrives with instructions already implied. Her identity has vanished from official records. Surveillance logs show convenient gaps. Witnesses hesitate, then fall silent.
Veteran detective Ruff Kale recognises the familiar shape of a death meant to disappear. Alongside his partner Lena Marik, he begins tracing the small inconsistencies that refuse to settle. Each question leads deeper into blocked access points, altered reports, and subtle warnings delivered through procedure and tone.
The investigation moves through the station’s underlayers and public spaces alike, revealing a structure that protects its own secrets while civilians absorb the consequences. Authority tightens its grip. Resources strain. Truth becomes a liability.
The Dead Girl in Sector Twelve opens the Ashfall Files series with a grounded, atmospheric noir investigation set inside a decaying orbital habitat. The story unfolds through pressure, observation, and consequence, establishing a slow-burn conspiracy that extends far beyond a single death.
Ashfall remembers what was buried.
Even when the system prefers silence.
36 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 11, 2026
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