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The Event Horizon Murder is a short chapter work that leads into an upcoming series featuring a hard-boiled detective in a future Chicago.
Here’s the description,
A battle-scarred detective. A dead-end case. In a future of omnipresent cameras and digital disguises, can he find an elusive killer?
Law enforcement is in Detective Marcus Carver’s blood. And with the help of Chicago’s citywide surveillance, he excels at tracking and catching killers. But when a politician’s son is slain in the city’s blacked-out cyberpunk gang territory, Carver has everyone’s attention and no leads on the murderer.
His boss breathing down his neck doesn’t help Carver’s authority issues, but with the victim’s family growing desperate, Carver runs down every hint of a trail. And when his most promising lead evaporates, Carver finds himself out of clues and short on time.
Can Carver catch the killer before someone buries the truth for good?
The Event Horizon Murder is the prequel to the Marcus Carver Sci-Fi Crime Series. If you like stories about mass surveillance, futuristic cityscapes and hard-boiled detectives, then you’ll love Greg Hickey’s tense sci-fi crime novella.
Read The Event Horizon Murder to get lost in a gripping near-future mystery.
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My thoughts. No spoilers.
I really enjoyed this short story.
The setting is beautifully described, with a gritty realism that harks back to the noir classics.
The Chicago of the future is beautifully imagined. As are the effects that climate change has had on the weather. Little details like that bring so much to the story.
Marcus Carver, our world-weary detective, is trying to keep his head above water. There are crimes to solve and a satisfying assembly of characters, good and bad.
Some excellent futuristic technology adds to the mix.
I can’t wait for the next part of the story.
Highly recommended.
About the Author.
I started my first novel the summer after seventh grade. It was based on a short story I had written for class the previous school year about the passengers of a shipwrecked cruise liner forced to coexist on a deserted island.
I didn’t get very far. Much as I liked writing stories, I far preferred playing outside with my friends.
Eight years later, I began to find a better balance between writing and life. I wrote the early drafts of my first screenplay Vita during my last two years of college, doing most of my work in the dead hours of Friday and Saturday evenings before going out with my friends. Vita went on to win an Honorable Mention award in the 2010 Los Angeles Movie Awards script competition and was named a finalist in the 2011 Sacramento International Film Festival.
After college, I spent a year in Sundsvall, Sweden and Cape Town, South Africa, playing and coaching for local baseball teams and penning my first novel, Our Dried Voices. That novel was published in 2014 and was a finalist for the Foreword Reviews’ INDIES Science Fiction Book of the Year.
Today, I still love sharing stories while staying busy with the other facets of my life. Following twelve-plus years of work as a forensic scientist, I am now a full-time author. After my post-college travels, I am back in my hometown of Chicago with my wife and daughter.
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