Shadows of the Sainted Feast

In the fictional coastal city of Porto Venganza, during the frenzied Feast of the Forgotten Saints, a female tourist from Nordland is assaulted in a public square while onlookers remain inert. Criminal profiler Elara Vance arrives to find that the collective madness of the carnival has birthed a ritualistic crime, each psychological portrait of the suspects revealing not isolated evil, but the silhouette of a god-shaped void in the human psyche.