Dystopian Mystery

Trigger, the Chihuahua private detective, needs a little R&R. But, no sooner does his retreat begin before he’s pulled into a new case - one with an eerie connection to his last one. This time, though, things take a disturbing turn - the would-be client is murdered! Now, Trigger is hot on the trail of the most dangerous foe he’s ever faced. If he doesn’t unravel the mystery quickly, he may find himself the next target of the brazen killer. Can he solve the case before the murderer strikes again?

It's 2030, and AI has made trial lawyers obsolete. When a former trial lawyer, John Keys, lands in jail, he becomes embroiled in a life and death situation that forces him to confront a horrifying truth to gain his freedom. John Keys is a trial lawyer and a damn good one. That is until artificial intelligence takes over the criminal justice system and makes him obsolete. Faced with the harsh reality of his new life, he lands himself in prison for good.

Drake is a wounded man. He's given everything and lost even more. In order to save what little remains of his soul, he has to chase a man to another continent in hopes of retribution. But despite his efforts, New York City still isn't safe - it appears that not all rats went down with the ship. The rag-tag team that Drake left behind - Screech, Hanna, and Leroy - must do their best to clean up his mess before they are targeted by a group of ruthless drug lords who just also happen to be some of the richest and most powerful people in New York City.

Helsinki is battling ruthless climate catastrophe. Tapani Lehtinen, a struggling poet, is among the few still willing to live in the city. When Tapani’s wife, Johanna, a journalist, goes missing, he embarks on a frantic hunt for her. Johanna’s disappearance seems to be connected to a story she was researching about a serial killer known as "The Healer". Determined to find Johanna, Tapani’s search leads him to uncover secrets from her past - secrets that connect her to the very murders she was investigating.

Damion Westover is a self-centered billionaire genius. And the Free Republic of North America desperately needs him. In this republic's fight against a shadow government that brought down the last great empire, the US in 2041, the good guys need a new nuclear deterrent against the rising tide of evil intent on annihilation of all that is good in the world.

In our near-future, the eccentric tech billionaire Jamin Lake reveals an innovation that could save our broken and divided nation: Algo, an A.I. candidate for president. It is heralded as an efficient, rational, and seemingly incorruptible leader, underpinned by the brainpower of a million minds. Jamin vows the A.I. has been programmed to follow only a single benevolent mantra: to deliver “the most good for the most people”. In a nation mired in seemingly endless crisis and division, it feels like a real chance for a better future.

En una societat futura, enmig del camp, cent dotze nois conviuen en una escola-residència, aïllats de tothom. L’únic món que coneixen és l’escola i els seus voltants. L’únic contacte possible amb l’exterior és el telèfon. Tot està programat: les classes, els àpats, les dutxes, els jocs, la lectura. Els professors són holografies. Però per uns fets casuals uns quants nois descobreixen el funcionament de l’escola, a la vegada, que aconsegueixen entrar en contacte amb un grup de noies d’una escola propera amb qui descobriran el valor de l’amistat i de l’amor.

An exhilarating debut novel, tracing the harrowing journey of a mother and son fighting for survival and a future in a world ravaged by environmental disaster "Not Alone kept me breathless with tension… [A] gripping adventure story.” —Emma Donoghue, New York Times bestselling author of...

The revolt against New Russia is inevitable, but revolution comes at a high price. Yulia must choose it over everything she holds dear—her undying love for Dima, the safety of her beloved citizens, and even her very identity. With an army to recruit, high-tech weapons to secure, and government surveillance to evade, Yulia must prove she is the leader they desperately need, even if she’s not the leader they want. Can she find her place in a complex rebellion and take down the government and the Organizatsaya before they destroy everyone and everything she places in their path?

Deutschland in naher Zukunft: Der Rechtsruck ist unaufhaltsam, das Geld ungerecht verteilt und die Demokratie erschüttert. Wer hat wirklich die Macht im Land? Es ist Heiligabend. Bewaffnete und vermummte Gestalten dringen in die Häuser der einflussreichsten Menschen Deutschlands ein - und ihre Geiselnahmen werden live übertragen, auf allen Kanälen. Das ist die Reality Show. Der Showmaster erklärt die Spielregeln: "Zwar wählen die Menschen ihre Regierung, die Macht liegt jedoch längst nicht mehr beim Volk.

What's left of humanity has withdrawn behind massive walls. Behind those walls, Kane's luck is running out. His son grows closer to rampancy every day and he is almost out of time to save him. He is a single mishap away from losing it all in a city full of half humans. Which is exactly when fate decides to stab him in the back. With something awakening inside him, Kane will have to discover why someone is trying to kill him, but that discovery could leave him little more than a bloody stain on the floor.

The “4” tattooed on the back of Corrie’s neck means she’ll die before she turns twenty. The knowledge of death dates has become available to the world. Now, those with early death dates—the Threes and Fours—are forced to put their short lives to use in a labor camp called the Prime so the long-lived can thrive. While Corrie tries to focus on using her leadership role to secretly create change in the Prime, her friend’s suspicious death makes her wonder how set in stone fate really is.

Xander Moore is the senior pilot at the Rapid Defense Center, the clearinghouse for America's defensive drone force. Although only in his mid-thirties, Xander is the "old man" at the Center, as other pilots are barely out of high school. But these kids, as gamers most of their lives, are skilled at remote drone operation and combat tactics.

When an EMP decimates the United States, Lori, a former Marine Raider, must embark on a treacherous journey with her daughter across the former United States from Pennsylvania to a rumored sanctuary in Washington State. Captain Kate Holloway moved her family to New York to start over and break the barriers that her work had created. But when an EMP brings New York to its knees, Kate must fight to survive amid the terror descending upon the city and rescue her family.

In a nation still recovering from the nuclear tragedies of forty years earlier, Clyde is working a dead-end guaranteed job at a diner, and Moonis is incarcerated in a Labor Camp for the Malcontented. But when Moonis's sister, Cecily, goes missing, the old friends escape their prisons to search for her in post-fallout America.

"The Awoken is a phenomenal story—filled with action, romance, plot twists, and a few big juicy reveals!" —Issa Rae A cinematic, speculative debut about a woman who undergoes cryogenic preservation at the time of her death and wakes up a century later in a world where her very life is a...

The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large—yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential of the future. “They'd known the end times were...

In this seafaring fantasy, a soft-spoken and empathic teen must chart her own course to rescue the ruthless pirate who raised her If there’s one thing Thea Fowler has learned from her mother, it’s that the only way for a woman to survive in a man’s world is to make herself strong...

“A republic, if you can keep it.” Those were Benjamin Franklin’s words following the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when asked what system of government the new America would follow. Unfurled is a futuristic novel which takes place in the United States following the collapse of the federal government. After decades of political stagnation, division among Americans, and the disconnect between the governed and those elected, America is forced to rebuild itself in the wake of total capitulation.

What if the price of peace was the very essence of your soul? In a future scarred by catastrophe, humanity found solace in a seductive promise: eternal serenity. Emotions, deemed too volatile, too painful, were meticulously managed by OmniCorp and its ubiquitous Infostream. The world became a haven of engineered calm, where comfort was paramount and discomfort a distant, impossible memory. But beneath the placid surface, a profound truth lay buried, waiting to resurface. Meet Elara Vance, a brilliant bio-engineer who uncovers the chilling reality behind this manufactured tranquility.