A Psychological Crime Noir

Detective Dominic Moretti spent twenty-four years keeping New York’s nightmares from spilling into daylight—until one rain-slick moment threatens to destroy everything he has left.

A week before retirement, Dom swerves to avoid a figure stepping into the crosswalk. Red hair. A flash of motion. A single heartbeat too late.
The impact is small, sickening, and final in the way a man knows instantly. When he kneels beside her in the dark, the truth settles in his chest like a stone:

He’s killed someone, and reporting it will cost him his career, his freedom, and the last fragile ties to his family.

Dom has worked scenes like this his entire life. He knows every loophole in the system, every required form, and every mistake that rookies typically make.  Covering it up should be simple.  A quiet alley. A washed-clean street. No witnesses, but guilt has its siren, and it starts with a ring.

The abandoned phone booth on Mercer—a rusted relic that hasn’t had wiring in decades—begins calling to him. Not with ghosts. Not with magic. But with something far worse: knowledge.

Someone is watching.  Someone knows. Someone is using that dead steel box to peel him open from the inside out—one ring, one whisper, one accusation at a time.

The voice on the line knows things no one should know… about the accident, about Dom’s past, about the murder that feel too familiar. Murder that feel personal.

As the nights grow stranger and the calls become impossible to ignore, Dom’s grip on reality—and his own sanity—begins to slip. The alley tightens around him like the cold steel of handcuffs on a winter day. The ringing drills through him. The truth stalks him like a shadow he can’t outrun.

Walk beside Detective Moretti as he relives the thud of the accident, the dragging of a broken body into the dark, and the unraveling guilt that hunts men who believe they can bury the truth.

Some crimes happen in an instant. The punishment takes its time.

“Your call cannot be completed as dialed, Dominic…”  “Do you accept the charges?”