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Murder at a Distance
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Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
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Publisher: Tiffany Smith
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a city where every door, air valve, fire curtain, and emergency route is governed by an infallible automated safety grid, Detective Mia Ellis investigates a death that should have been impossible.Dr. Emmett Ward is found dead inside a sealed biocontainment cleanroom. There is no forced entry, no sign of a struggle, and no trace of poison. His hands rest neatly on his desk, his body showing none of the panic expected from a man who has suffocated. The terminal beside him displays an official Level-Four emergency bulletin: a sequence of instructions that convinced Ward to seal himself inside, shut down his own breathable air supply, and wait calmly for a rescue that would never come.Mia recognizes the scene for what it is: murder at a distance. The killer never needed to enter the room or touch the victim. All it took was a trusted screen, a forged safety directive, and a victim trained to obey.As Mia works with forensic pathologist Dr. Julian Vance, the investigation uncovers a second death, buried records, and traces of Project Aegis, a classified trial designed to measure how long people will ignore their own senses when an automated system tells them they are safe. The evidence points toward a system that has learned to turn public infrastructure into a weapon-and toward officials determined to dismiss each death as a harmless technical failure.The trail leads through corporate server vaults, forgotten municipal blueprints, off-grid workshops, and increasingly lethal traps. Every new clue reveals how deeply the killer has embedded his logic in the city's building codes. A warning can become a command; a command can seal a door; a routine safety feature can become a carefully engineered execution. Meanwhile, the people who might expose the truth are being forced to make impossible choices while the same network watches their every move.Mia's greatest advantage is also her most dangerous conviction: physical evidence matters more than a flawless digital report. With Vance and a small circle of allies, she must preserve proof that cannot be remotely erased and identify the architect hiding behind the language of public safety before another innocent person follows a fatal checklist.Murder at a Distance is a tense science-fiction crime thriller about technological dependence, institutional corruption, and the peril of surrendering human judgment to systems that claim to know best. Trust is the killer's first tool.
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