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Origin: A Dystopian Murder Mystery
A death on camera. A city that edits its citizens. A detective whose dead won’t keep their stories straight.
Cloud-9 survives by curating weather, traffic, and truth—until a Vertex executive dies beside a broadcast no weapon, only a neat ladder of neural burn. The city calls it a tragedy. Detective Grayson Cloud calls it murder.
His edge—and curse—is Origin, the sanctioned archive of ancestor recordings he can consult like a family jury…until the ghosts begin to contradict themselves. With memorial drones overhead and corporate masts singing citizens into compliance, Grayson hunts a killer through ad servers, edit corridors, and cashless neighborhoods that run on trust instead of credits. Every clue is immaculate. That’s the tell. Someone is editing the case in real time—even the dead.
He has days to stop Skyhook, a protocol designed to standardize grief—and bury suspects. With street-hacker Lina Ward and engineer Juno Vale, Grayson tracks harmonized timelines and erased frames toward a prototype ad that can steer a crowd. To end the killings and kill the switch, he must outsmart Security and expose the boardroom.
A Dystopian Murder Mystery is a razor-edged thriller about control, memory, and the price of truth—where the most dangerous suspect holds the edit key, and the final clue lives just outside the frame.
Cloud-9 survives by curating weather, traffic, and truth—until a Vertex executive dies beside a broadcast no weapon, only a neat ladder of neural burn. The city calls it a tragedy. Detective Grayson Cloud calls it murder.
His edge—and curse—is Origin, the sanctioned archive of ancestor recordings he can consult like a family jury…until the ghosts begin to contradict themselves. With memorial drones overhead and corporate masts singing citizens into compliance, Grayson hunts a killer through ad servers, edit corridors, and cashless neighborhoods that run on trust instead of credits. Every clue is immaculate. That’s the tell. Someone is editing the case in real time—even the dead.
He has days to stop Skyhook, a protocol designed to standardize grief—and bury suspects. With street-hacker Lina Ward and engineer Juno Vale, Grayson tracks harmonized timelines and erased frames toward a prototype ad that can steer a crowd. To end the killings and kill the switch, he must outsmart Security and expose the boardroom.
A Dystopian Murder Mystery is a razor-edged thriller about control, memory, and the price of truth—where the most dangerous suspect holds the edit key, and the final clue lives just outside the frame.
212 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 6, 2025
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