Forthcoming · Available 1 October 2026 · KIWI Saga Book Two
Mogden - Dark Waters
A West London murder mystery about environmental responsibility, public assurance and the evidence that survives between systems.
By J.B. Ashford · Available
The investigation
A death inside a system built to protect the public
When environmental campaigner Carolina Esteban is found dead inside Mogden Sewage Treatment Works, Detective Inspector Kath Adrian inherits an investigation in which private relationships, public office and corporate assurance have become dangerously entangled.
Kiwi and Luc De Peyrac return as the case moves across Hounslow, Isleworth and Brentford. Records exist in separate places. Responsibilities sit with different institutions. Each system can explain its own fragment, but none can see the whole chain.
The investigation asks what happens when warnings, evidence and accountability are divided so completely that everybody can claim to have done their part.
The real landscape
Follow Dark Waters through Hounslow
The companion connects the novel with public locations around Isleworth, Osterley, the Duke's River, Brentford Lock and the Thames. It can be explored by cycle or as a series of walks.
Continue the KIWI world
Begin with The Martyr's Seat
Book Two tells a complete mystery, but the relationships between Kath Adrian, Kiwi and Luc De Peyrac begin in the Westminster investigation of Book One.