Appsolution

by Blue Smith

Life Can Be Murdr At least that's what nearly-made-it rocker Noir Romanoff is about to find out when his latest fling leaves him with something penicillin can't clear a profile on an underground hook-up app called Murdr. Roy doesn't really like the life he's got; he's got friends, but his hopes and dreams evaporated years ago. Hitting the bar for probably the most wrong reason ever leads to a chance encounter with Noir, THE Noir, and sets off a chain of events that complicates their lives in both good and bad ways. Move Over 'Netflix and Chill'; Hello 'Ambush and Kill' Kuro is the programmer behind the app but he's also much much more. Right now though he's acting as a private investigator to find out who hacked into his app and why; there seems to be a pattern if only he can figure it out. Noir may just be the clue he's looking for. A killer is on the loose on the streets, his MO the grisliest thing Detectives Konakawa and Maniwa have ever seen. Could these killings perhaps be linked to the death of an AI prodigy and the disappearance of the head of a small tech firm? Neo-Akron Is About to E.X.P.L.O.D.E. A megacity unlike any other, Neo-Akron is an entirely enclosed environment that stretches imposingly up into the sky like a solid slab of glass and metal. It's also a city divided. Physically, it's divided into twenty-four layers, each a mini city within the city ten levels high, and movement between layers is highly restricted. In governance, the Tsubaki and Kuwabutake Corportations share joint control, each with their own ideas of how it should be run. Old friends and unlikely allies come together as the battle lines are drawn on the streets and in the boardrooms of Layer Seventeen to determine the fates of its citizens. Who can really be trusted? And what is this elusive piece of tech that set everything on this crash course, this unassuming little black module that people are willing to kill for? As things heat up, the damage will spread from one end of Layer Seventeen to the other; from the glitzy twenty-four hour nightlife of Soapland to the artificial seashores of District Nuevo; from the ultra-posh digs of Saville to the girls-only Lolita District. Come take a hovershaw ride with the inhabitants of the megacity and find Who will survive on the mean streets, and in the mean sheets, of Neo-Akron? Appsolution is a dark dystopian romantic thriller. Contains graphic sex, strong language, and violence.

368 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 17, 2016