Killer in the Retroscape: A New-Future Mystery by Bruce M. Perrin

A BRAG Medallion honoree
Third-place Winner in the Eric Hoffer eBook Awards

In 2068, Doug Michaels finds his friend, Josh Unger, dead in his home. When law enforcement concludes his death was a suicide, Doug is dumbstruck – what could explain such a violent death in a future where such actions are unimaginable. Trying to unearth a killer, Doug creates a mental landscape of Josh’s past, a retroscape, starting in the mid-2030s.

Among its landmarks are:
An illness, sensationalized in the media as the “zombie pandemic”.
A mysterious phrase uttered at the attack on a government official.
Josh’s machine-intelligence wife, Julia, who may hold the secret … if she can only remember.

In the end, determining guilt in a retroscape littered with suspects tells Doug more about humanity, technology, and himself than he ever could have imagined.

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Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian