Detective Nero: The Blood Rose

By A. J. Zennaro

A Victorian occult mystery where nothing is what it seems.

London, 1887.
Fog-shrouded alleys. Unmarked graves. Secrets stitched into flesh.

Dr. James Thornwick, a war-scarred physician back from India, wants only a quiet life-until the night he rescues a wounded black cat bearing a surgical scar.

The cat speaks.

He reads.
He reasons.
He remembers the dead.

His name is Nero, and he's being hunted.

When a priceless ruby-known as the Blood Rose-vanishes from the home of Countess Pembroke, Thornwick and Nero are pulled into a conspiracy that slithers beneath London's aristocracy, its slums... and something far older than both.

As the city trembles between science and superstition, the unlikely duo uncovers a cult dedicated to forbidden rituals, and a surgeon whose monstrous creations blur the line between life and death.

To save London, Thornwick must confront a past he's tried to bury-
and Nero must face the truth of what he really is.

Because the Blood Rose is waking.
And it remembers.

A detective.
A cursed gem.
A cat who should not exist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FPR5Z1VT
• ISBN13: 9798263066567
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"