The Madness Mystery

Inspector Ben Kramer and Detective Daniel Fitzgerald must investigate a strange issue: none of the 2041 accidental deaths were really accidents, and none of the homicidal deaths were actually perpetuated by the convicted.

I admit that mystery and detective story are two genres that I'm not used to write, but I hope I did a relatively good job at it. I had no prior experience in these styles; so the style is a bit inspired from Isaac Asimov's investigation stories. And the mystery's theme is inspired by a great thought-provoking idea from a Japanese anime show called Soul Eater.

Daniel Fitzgerald is a character of my novel series The Shadow Paradigm; he's one of my top 5 favourite character to write, and I was glad to make an entire story with him all the time. He's just so fun to write.

The events here are 4 years later after the events in the novel.

I wanted to make the sci-fi elements feel natural. Many, including myself, write science-fiction elements as if its the first time the reader reads them, or meets that world. I decided to try rather to write the sci-fi elements as if they've always been there, that this futuristic world is actually as mundane as our own. I hope it works.
(ETM, btw, is Energy To Matter; in order words, its a replicator. )

I hope you enjoy!