Mega-City One, 2102 AD. Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson’s second year on the streets as a full-Eagle Judge.
Two hundred floors up on Wormwood Block, in one of the poorer corners of Mega-City One, a cit turns on her neighbours, biting and raging. Just another futsie, in a city filled with everyday tragedy.
Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson and her new partner take the call. It should be an open-and-shut case, until she tries to read the poor futsie’s mind and finds... nothing.
Somewhere in Wormwood is a predator, setting a trap for people like Cass. Hell of a way to finish her second year on the streets…
Zina Hutton paints such a vivid picture of the tech-centric, claustrophobic, all-too-human setting of Wormwood Block. There's a strong focus on the lives of innocent bystanders intersecting with the mystery-of-the-week, keeping the world around the story busy even as Anderson herself is beset with debilitating headaches and workplace antagonism. I feel that I learned much more about the setting than about Judge Anderson herself, but the plot wraps up with such satisfying inevitability that I'm torn between wanting a longer book VS. simply wanting *another* book by Hutton.