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The Post-Mortem Protocol: A Cyberpunk Locked Room Mystery
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 23 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
How do you murder a tech billionaire inside an impenetrable, air-gapped vault? You drown him from the inside out.
Welcome to Neo-Shibuya, a sprawling, neon-drenched metropolis where corporate greed and digital gods rule the skyline, and the forgotten rot in the acidic rain below.
When Magnus Vance, the pioneer of neural-architecture, is found dead inside his perfectly sealed Cloud-Nine Vault, the authorities are baffled. The cause of death? Internal drowning. His high-end synthetic lungs were hacked to harvest the room's moisture and drown him. Yet, the room's digital security is flawless. No firewall breaches, no ghost signals, no digital footprint. It is the ultimate impossible crime.
Enter Detective Jax, a gritty, trench-coat-wearing hound of the Sector 4 precinct. Accompanied by the brilliant cyber-pathologist Dr. Aris Thorne, Jax descends into the treacherous underbelly of the city-the Silicon Slums and the dead zone known as the Rust Belt. He is hunting a top-tier phantom capable of bypassing billion-credit biometric seals without leaving a single line of corrupted code.
But as Jax digs deeper, reality begins to violently fracture. Visual glitches, missing time, and impossible memories plague his investigation. The city itself seems to be tearing apart at the seams. Soon, Jax discovers a terrifying truth: the killer isn't a digital hacker, but an analog terrorist wielding primitive tools. And even worse, Jax's own existence might be the greatest illusion of all.
Fast-paced and wildly inventive, this book seamlessly blends classic locked-room mystery mechanics with a gritty cyberpunk noir aesthetic. Perfect for fans of high-tech sci-fi thrillers, hardboiled detective fiction, and mind-bending plot twists.
Discover a world where the ultimate digital lock is broken by the simplest analog key. Scroll up and grab your copy today!
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