Residue
What if murder was just content?
In a near-future where neural links are universal and memory sharing is mainstream, a black market has emerged for experiences people can’t—or shouldn’t—have. Rookie cop Daniel Voss catches his first real case: a murder victim posed like a sculpture, staged not for concealment but for consumption.
Someone is killing people and selling the experience as a product. The investigation leads Daniel through the memory market’s underworld—an arrogant tech mogul, a black market dealer, buyers addicted to borrowed sensation—while his mentor, the legendary Detective Frank Harlan, guides him through his first real case.
What Daniel doesn’t know is that Frank is the killer. A twenty-year veteran who designs murders the way a filmmaker designs shots. Every lesson he teaches Daniel is a demonstration of his own methodology. Every time he steers Daniel away from a lead, he’s protecting himself.
For readers of Black Mirror, Blake Crouch, Alex North
“If you could sell the experience of killing someone, would murder become a product? This book answers that question and you’ll wish it hadn’t.”
— Early Draft Reader
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What Readers Are Saying
“Black Mirror meets Se7en. A terrifying premise executed with surgical precision.”
ARC Reader
“The twist recontextualizes everything. I immediately started rereading.”
Early Reviewer
“The most unsettling exploration of technology and violence since Strange Days.”
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