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Killer in the Retroscape

A Near-Future Mystery

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Killer in the Retroscape

By: Bruce M. Perrin
Narrated by: Denver C. Risley
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In 2068, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Douglas (Doug) Michaels finds his lifelong friend Josh Unger dead in his home.

When law enforcement concludes his death was a suicide, Doug and his wife Ali are dumbstruck; they wonder what could explain such a needlessly violent and lonely death in a future where such actions are unimaginable.

Trying to unearth a killer, be it either flesh and blood or the cumulative stress of life, Doug creates a mental landscape of Josh’s past, a retroscape, starting in the mid-2030s.

Among its landmarks are:

  • An illness sensationalized in the media as the “zombie pandemic” that drives a wedge between husband and wife, parents and children
  • Cryptic communications between Josh and an “after-life specialist” who peddles immortality services
  • A mysterious phrase uttered at the assassination of a government official that ties it to Josh’s death 14 years later
  • Josh’s machine-intelligence wife Julia, who may hold the secret to his death...if she can only remember

In the end, determining guilt in a retroscape littered with suspects tells Doug more about humanity, technology, and himself than he ever would have imagined.

©2018 Bruce M. Perrin (P)2020 Bruce M. Perrin Dystopian Fiction Science Fiction Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense Marriage Thriller Technology Mystery Artificial Intelligence Robotics Computer Science

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I enjoyed this book. I love a good mystery and although this is a little different to what I am use to listening to, the blurb sounded interesting enough that I have it ago. Glad I did because I really enjoyed it and once I started I didn't want to stop until the end. With everything going on at the moment it really resonated with me and definitely have you thinking about the story long after it has finished. The story does jump about as the main character looks back on his memories to see if he can find a clue to the murder of his friend, so you need to concentrate and it is not the type of book that you want lots of interruptions during (so lock the door and enjoy). The author has a very good imagination and a great way with words, this meant you never felt left behind when things got technical and I enjoyed the authors vision for the future, especially the way the main character interacted with the robots. The characters were also good and well rounded. So over all a great mystery with a futuristic twist.
Doug has lost contact with his best friend but when his ex wife asks him to check up on Josh because she is unable to get in contact, he had no idea of what he would find. His new wife, a high Tec robot, turned off and his dead body in the garage. The police believe it to be suicide of a reclusive man but Doug thinks otherwise and so sets out to visit the last they both shared to find a clue why his friend might have ended up dead. They survived the zombie pandemic but life for everybody would never be the same. The technology world took off as a result, could that have something to do with the dramatic change in his friend over the last few months of his life? Or could it have been a more human cause?
I liked the narrator and thought he did well with both make and female voices.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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