I am seeking representation for THE ETHAN GREENE FILES, a completed psychological crime thriller trilogy totaling approximately 279,184 words. Books 1 and 2 are complete at roughly 88,861 and 85,301 words, respectively; Book 3 completes the arc at approximately 105,022 words. The series combines the grounded procedural tension of Michael Connelly with the psychological interiority of Dennis Lehane, anchored by a supernatural premise executed with the restraint of literary fiction.

The Reciprocal, where hunter and hunted share the same psychic thread and must each find the other first, does not exist in the currently published thriller landscape. It is the engine that drives all three books and the premise that distinguishes the series from every existing entry in the genre.

THE RECIPROCAL (Book 1) introduces Ethan Greene, a Manhattan financial analyst whose life fractures when he begins dreaming the murders of women, not as metaphor, but as lived experience. He watches through the killer's eyes, inhabits his hands, feels his certainty. When the victims begin turning up in police reports, Ethan is forced into collaboration with NYPD Detective Collins, who must decide whether the soft-spoken man in her interrogation room is a witness, a suspect, or something the law has no framework for. The investigation reveals that the killer is a firefighter who has been hunting for over a decade. Ethan's father experienced the same ability and may have been murdered for it. The book ends with the killer in custody, and the unsettling discovery that five previous men with this ability were systematically hunted down and killed by the same gun, including his father.

SHADOW OF DREAMS (Book 2) opens in the aftermath of the arrest. The procedural machinery press conferences, departmental scrutiny, the bureaucratic weight of an impossible case, provides the frame for a more intimate story: Ethan and Collins building a working relationship defined by trust earned slowly and under pressure. When a federal agent named Rector approaches them with evidence of a classified program tracking men like Ethan, the series expands its scope without abandoning its emotional core. The book closes at Detective Morrison's funeral, a colleague killed in the course of the investigation, and Ethan's quiet acknowledgment that finding the man who ordered his father's death is no longer a question of if, but how, and what he's willing to do when he gets there.

INHERITED DARKNESS (Book 3) delivers the reckoning. Ethan, Collins, and forensic psychologist Dr. Bennett are now formally attached to a federal task force hunting the architect of the killings: a man named Daniel Varek, who has been systematically eliminating men with Ethan's ability for decades. The investigation moves across New York and ultimately to a beach in Montauk, where Varek is neutralized by a sniper's shot, and Ethan finds, in the trunk of Varek's car, his father's final journal. The last entry contains Varek's name and address: his father had solved the case alone, then was killed before anyone knew. Ethan writes one last message to his father on the blank page that follows, then hands the journal to Collins for evidence collection. The trilogy ends not with catharsis but with honest reckoning, the dead remain dead, the ability remains, and the two people who have spent months earning each other's trust are standing in a parking lot with the Atlantic on three sides.

The series will appeal to readers of dark psychological crime fiction, those who read Don Winslow for the institutional weight, Tana French for the interior damage, and Gillian Flynn for the willingness to hold difficult emotional truths without resolving them cleanly. The supernatural element is executed with deliberate restraint; it functions less as a genre device and more as a pressure system that forces every relationship and institution in the novel to clarify what it actually believes about truth, evidence, and accountability.

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