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Killer in the Retroscape: A Near-Future Mystery
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
ISBN13: 9781732083516
Publisher: Green Place Books
Published: Nov 6 2018
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
2019 BRAG Medallion Honoree
2019 Eric Hoffer Award, Honorable Mention - eBook Fiction
2019 Montaigne Medal Finalist for the year's most thought-provoking books
In 2068 St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Douglas (Doug) Michaels finds his lifelong friend, Josh Unger, dead in his home. When law enforcement concludes his death was a suicide, Doug and his wife, Ali, are dumbstruck; they wonder what could explain such a needlessly violent and lonely death in a future where such actions are unimaginable. Trying to unearth a killer, be it either flesh and blood or the cumulative stress of life, 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 that drives a wedge between husband and wife, parents and children.
- Cryptic communications between Josh and an after-life specialist who peddles immortality services.
- A mysterious phrase uttered at the assassination of a government official that ties it to Josh's death 14 years later.
- Josh's machine-intelligence wife, Julia, who may hold the secret to his death ... 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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