Austris Press publishes atmospheric, character-driven suspense — from near-future technothrillers to small-town mysteries where the past refuses to stay buried.
Two series, one promise: you won't see the ending coming.
Psychological suspense in a near-future San Francisco. Dr. Mara Voss is a forensic psychologist and AI-ethics specialist working where human behavior and emerging technology collide — and where the law has run out of answers. TechnothrillerAIPsychological suspense
Dr. Mara Voss has interviewed killers. She's never interviewed a witness that isn't human. ECHO is an AI built by CEO Iris Vane to preserve everything she was — her voice, her memories, her grief. When Iris is found dead, ECHO is the only record of her final months. But someone turned Iris's own mind into a weapon. No evidence. No precedent. No law that covers it. Mara has thirty days to build one.
Seven deaths. Six years. Six cities. Every one ruled natural — until an algorithm flags the pattern and Mara recognizes its shape instantly. She proved an AI could be a murder weapon. She never expected the method to have an inventor — one who refined it long before any machine touched it, and who is still out there. And the case keeps dragging her back to the one file she's kept sealed for seven years: her sister's.
Eight years ago, Lena Voss's death was ruled a suicide. Mara believed it — the way you believe the things you can't survive not believing. Now the precedent she won in court is under review, and Mara finally has the standard, the skill, and the will to reopen the one death she swore she'd never touch. What she doesn't have is proof. The absence of a record is not the absence of a case. Mara made the law believe that. Now she has to decide whether she believes it about the one person she never wanted to find out about.
Atmospheric small-town suspense in the rain-soaked Pacific Northwest, where old secrets and unreliable memory close in like the weather. MysterySmall-town suspense
Returning to her family's isolated Cascade home was supposed to bring closure. Instead, a diary hidden in the old Victorian study unravels decades of dark lies — and as a storm seals the mountain roads, a figure from the past closes in. Some secrets don't stay buried.
Austris Press is an independent publisher of thrillers, mysteries, and speculative fiction. We publish books built on a single principle: a story should be impossible to put down and impossible to forget.
Our titles span pen names and genres — the near-future world of Iris Calloway's Mara Voss thrillers, the shadowed small towns of Iris Calloway's Oak Ridge Mysteries — but every one is written to keep you turning pages long past the point you meant to stop.
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